GRIEVANCES OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
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This is to Certify that I illiaunded Mr. Biswicks Hors m it ill¬ 
ness, last Eyenining and have this day opmid the Body and 
faindin that in inflamstion was the Cans ot it death, 
my hand this 26th day of March 18*28. 
John Waller 
Farrer 
Tiverton 
Devon. 
I could, Sir, give you a host similar to the above; but will not 
trespass on your pages, this evil being - too geneia y nown am 
felt to require any further comment from me. 
We have been, and still are, in bondage; we are labouring 
under an oppression that cannot long be borne. The iemcc y m> 
suggests itself to me is, to call a meeting of veterinary surgeons 
in London; let a committee be formed, and a petition drawn up 
and forwarded to the legislature. Mr. L. states, that most veteri¬ 
nary surgeons will join hand in hand. I must go a step furthei. 
Will not the human surgeons join too ? Certainly they will; oi 
they love their profession; they know how intimately our cause 
is connected with the advancement of medical science, anc icy 
will feel interested in our welfare. The nobility and gentry wi 
follow ; and I am convinced that, if necessary, a thousand signa¬ 
tures might be easily procured. Parliament will take our pitia > c 
situation into their serious consideration. Come forward then, 
my fellow veterinarians ; come forward, ye veterinary students. 
The object Mr. Langworthy has in view, seconded by Mr. Drown, 
of Melton Mowbray, is a glorious one indeed. Come boldly and 
fearlessly forward, and we shall erect a banner which, w ien 
unfurled, will render victory assured. We, indeed, require 
emancipation : let us follow their path, and we shall gam it. 
Soon shall we find the chains which bind us, and the trammels 
that invest us, torn asunder. . . _ w- \ 
A gentleman for whom (from Ins style of writing) I ^ must lecl 
great respect, and who signs himself “ A Farrier, disbelieves 
that a petition to Parliament would be productive of essential 
service: and adds, that, at the present junction, t nogs o giea ci 
import engage their attention. I have used the word emancipa¬ 
tion, and now exclaim, that we need to be emancipated as muc ) 
as the seven millions oi Catholics. 
He a (r ain advises a valuable partizan not to be led away >y an 
itrnis fatuus. I contend, that if this noble-minded partizan goes 
forward, and meets with that assistance lie urges, he will kindle 
a flame which will for ever burn in the breasts oi Ins brethren. 
If, Sir, we follow the advice of Ins opponent, we shall verily, o 
a truth, be following a will-o’-the-wisp, and sink deeper and 
