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ON CHLOROFORM. 
This work, I am empowered to say, shall be allowed to pass 
into the hands of those only who are members of the Royal Col- 
lege of Veterinary Surgeons. From its size and peculiarity of 
appearance it would constitute a conspicuous and appropriate 
ornament of the surgery. A diploma may not to every visitor 
who calls on a member of our profession be intelligible. Certi- 
ficates may be, and have been, mistaken for instruments of authority. 
Here, however, is an object which, certain to attract attention, will 
be seen ordy where the title is assured. It will form the honour- 
able sign of recognised pretension ; and where it is found, there will 
the most ignorant be enabled to discern the title of the practitioner. 
I have long desired that we possessed some mark of the kind. 
Of the utility of the design there can be no dispute. That it shall 
be possessed by none but members, I undertake the responsibility. 
In the first instance, I make myself answerable that it shall be 
obtained by no one whose right is not beyond dispute. It should 
afterwards be a point of honour not to sell or give it to any not 
associated with the corporate body. The profession to whose 
special service it is devoted must be careful that it is not under 
any circumstances perverted from its intention. 
In conclusion, let me state, I have no further interest in the 
work, or any control over it, beyond that which I have implied in 
the above statement. It is to be sold, but at what price I do not 
know. Being, however, a work of some size, and much merit — 
circumscribed in its circulation, and therefore limited in its sale — 
I cannot imagine it will be published cheap. Neither do I desire 
it should be sold at too low a price, lest, being obtainable at small 
cost, it should grow to be lowly estimated, or pass into the hands 
of those who could desire it to sell again. 
Those who may wish for particulars I refer to the proprietor, 
Mr. T. Bailey, 8, Conduit-place, Spring- street, Paddington. From 
that gentleman every information may be procured, but the cast 
itself can only be had through my order. 
I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient servant. 
MAY NOT CHLOROFORM PROVE USEFUL IN THE 
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE I 
By A Retired Medical Officer. 
Among its many uses, may not all the horrors of the slaughter- 
house be superseded by its intervention] 
Having several times witnessed the effects of chloroform on 
