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ON BROKEN WIND. 
The Charter, however, forms a fulcrum upon which we can place 
our lever, so as to obtain an Act not only affording us the same 
exemptions and privileges that other professional bodies enjoy, but 
likewise enabling us by a summary process before any local magis- 
trate to levy a fine of not less than £5, and not more than £10, 
against every individual who assumes the title of veterinary sur- 
geon without a proper qualification. Such an extent of protection 
as the above the government, I think, would not refuse ; but before 
such an object can be gone into or accomplished, we must get set- 
tled amongst ourselves. 
Having now flung my mite into the general treasury, I leave 
others to do the same, and for the profession to carry out their views 
in such way as they think best. 
I remain, gentlemen, &c. 
N ewcastle-under-Lyne, 
Dec. 9, 1845. 
ON BROKEN WIND. 
By Thos. Walton Mayer, M.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — I n the November number of your Journal there 
appeared a letter from Mr. James Fisher, containing some appro- 
priate remarks on the cure of broken wind, represented to have 
taken place under the able treatment of Professor Dick, of Edin- 
burgh. 
Professor Dick, I perceive, most properly refuses to give the 
profession any information on the subject, reserving the whole of 
his learning for the benefit of his pupils. It is, therefore, open for 
the profession to discuss the matter as they think proper, and it is 
with the view of promoting this discussion that I am induced to 
send you these few observations. 
If I could really bring myself to believe the accuracy of Mr. 
Dick’s statement, that both himself and his pupils so understood 
the principles and practice by which they could cure broken wind, 
that they could and had cured it, I should certainly advise every 
veterinary surgeon to become a pupil of Mr. Dick’s. The obtain- 
ment of such an important secret is well worth the outlay of a few 
pounds. Unfortunately, however, I have received my education in a 
different establishment, have adopted certain notions there received, 
