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incurable. Consistency, gentlemen, is a principle to be admired 
by all persons, be their situations exalted or otherwise ; and if I 
were Professor Dick, I would endeavour to act agreeably to it, 
either by giving the treatment of all cases observed upon, or none. 
I need hardly add, that such has not been the case with the Pro- 
fessor ; for after the usual Monthly Report of Cases from the 
Edinburgh College in your last publication, several very judicious 
observations are made by him on some of the more interesting 
ones, and the treatment given even to minuteness. I allude to 
the cases of diseased brain, diabetes, quittor, paralysis of the rectum, 
and tetanus. Why the Professor should see it right to give us 
the treatment of these cases, and withhold it in others, I know not, 
unless it be to excite wonder and astonishment in the minds of his 
brother veterinarians south of the Tweed; a conjecture which, if 
true, to say the least of it, reflects little credit on a teacher of the 
veterinary art. I have now done with the subject, and beg to 
subscribe myself, Messrs. Editors, 
Your’s, most respectfully, 
Thomas Wells. 
Castle Meadows, Norwich, 
February 14, 1846. 
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Messrs. Editors, 
In your impression of last month are suggestions for the esta- 
blishment of a General Annuity Fund, by George Baker, Esq., 
Reigate. The plan meets with my entire approbation, in con- 
junction with the professional gentlemen in this locality, as well 
as those whom I have had any correspondence with at a distance. 
It would be quite superfluous for me to advocate the propriety of 
its immediate commencement after the elucidations the subject has 
received in this Journal at various times by different writers: 
there may prevail in the profession disparity of sentiment as a 
corporate body on minor points. But an Annuity Fund is per- 
sonal, and comes home to ourselves and families, and I would fain 
hope that no difference of opinion prevails among us as to its 
paramount importance and utility. The only objections the prac- 
titioners I hear of in the provinces make are — Why do not the 
veterinary surgeons in the metropolis take the lead? If they do 
so, we will join them with heart and hand. Therefore, let pro- 
crastination and supineness be banished from the ranks. Let a 
provisional committee be formed at once, with an honorary secre- 
