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THE CHARTER. 
indeed, have they all — been so ably, and though succinctly 
yet unanswerably, replied to, in the “ Report” approved by 
Council, and ere this transmitted to the “ Governors,” that all 
comment from us is needless. All that we have to add is, we 
have nothing to repent in having stuck to our Charter ; but, on 
the contrary, experience every feeling of satisfaction at having, in 
spite of all remonstrance and temptation, persistingly so acted. 
And, finally, with the two unswerving, unflinching Mayers , we 
also enter our “ protest against any alterations being made in the 
present Charter.” 
We beseech our professional brethren of the Ecole Vete- 
RINAIRE d’Alfort to contradict, if they can — for justification is 
quite out of the question — that such horrible cruelties as are de- 
picted in Mr. Murdoch’s account of his “Visit” to their school 
in our Number for July, and confirmed by Mr. Rogers’ commu- 
nication to Mr. Youatt in our last, are continued to be perpetrated 
with their cognizance and consent. Surely, the Professors at the 
famed Veterinary School of Alfort are not the men to stand by 
and see that noble and generous animal, The Horse, on whose 
account and for whose benefit the institution was founded, put to 
cruel torture simply for the purpose of initiating pupils in ope- 
rations which might be learnt with sufficient accuracy on the dead 
subject to put into practice whenever occasion might require upon 
the living. Do surgeons practise their operations on the living 
subjects 1 And are veterinary surgeons better operators than 
surgeons 1 or have the former more difficult operations to perform 
than the latter ? No, no ! — vivisection is not required to make a 
veterinary surgeon ; else in this country should we be all bunglers, 
which we flatter ourselves is not the case. Can it be possible 
that sixty- two operations are performed on the same living horse ! — 
that twelve horses are thus operated on weekly ! — that half of 
these die ere the operations are completed ! — and that the opera- 
tions consist in firing in every part, required or unrequired ! — in 
extraction of the lateral cartilages ! — in lopping off ears and taking 
out eyes ! ! ! — Forbid it, heaven! 
Mr. Rogers seems to think we of the veterinary profession in 
Britain ought to address a memorial on the subject to the French 
