410 MR. C. CLARK ON THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
ment as the former; insert rowels, and remove the grapes with 
the actual cautery, and dress the surfaces with sulphate of zinc. 
If there was a doubt about its terminating in farcy or glanders, 
I would give tonics, such as small doses of sulphate of copper. 
MR. C. CLARK ON THE VEtERINARY COLLEGE. 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian.” 
Gentlemen, 
1 HAVE lately published a pamphlet (a copy of which I handed 
to you) entitled, “ An Exposure of Abuses at that Institution 
called the Royal Veterinary College;” and having therein assert¬ 
ed, after full investigation, that the term college is erroneously 
applied, the place having no endowments, charter, sanction, pri¬ 
vileges, or particular rights whatever, you would much oblige me, 
and perhaps others of your readers, by informing us on what 
grounds (supposing you to be in possession of superior informa¬ 
tion) you have so repeatedly styled it a national institution . 1 
have stated also that the stabling and building at St. Pancras, 
commonly known under the name of a college, is belonging to a 
few private gentlemen, who club together to get their work done 
cheap, and under the management of two or three individuals 
>vhose illiberal and injurious acts towards the veterinary profes¬ 
sion are at present sanctioned by names of high authority; and 
that the imperfect school which there exists, is only to be regard¬ 
ed as a private establishment. Although bearing the title oi 
Royal Veterinary College , its managers are neither responsible 
to the King or his government, or to the profession of which it 
bears the name; for in respect to those practitioners who have 
paid Mr. Coleman (who is called a professor) twenty guineas foi 
the privilege of going there and hearing his imperfect theories, 
they have no voice in its administration, no rights or privileges in 
consequence, and no membership whatever. They assume the 
title of veterinary surgeon, and absurdly style themselves mem¬ 
bers of the college , though possessing neither vote, interest, noi 
power, and being even excluded, by a special law, from becoming 
subscribers to the establishment from which they sprung. They 
are dishonourably distinguished, proscribed, shut out from a pri¬ 
vilege open to the horse-stealer or the knacker, and only denied 
to the veterinary surgeon. They are besides informed by the 
same men who have thus insulted them, that four or five me¬ 
dical gentlemen are more competent to decide on their profes- 
