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proper precautions should be taken to check the coming disease. 
All these signs have their value in making known the ap¬ 
proach of disease; and when any of them make their appear¬ 
ance, the horse requires more than ordinary care and watchful¬ 
ness. Inattention at such times is the chief and principal cause 
of so many fatal cases occurring on farm establishments. 
Another cause for so many losses, is, that when the sick 
animal is attended to, it is generally done by the blacksmith or 
farmer himself, and, from long experience, I can most truly 
vouch for this fact, that more horses are lost by the employment 
of ignorant pretenders to the veterinary art, and by the farmer’s 
indiscriminate resort to the drug shop, than from the natural 
operation of disease itself. 
Farmer's Magazine for April 1852. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
[From the “Era,” with Additions.] 
On Monday last the Annual General Meeting of the Members 
of this excellent institution took place at the Freemasons’Tavern, 
when a very favourable report was presented of the operations 
and prospects of the College. 
In the evening a dinner was given at the tavern by about 
sixty gentlemen connected with the College or interested in its 
progress, to Mr. W. Robinson, the President of the insti¬ 
tution. 
The Chair was occupied by T. M. Bass, Esq. M.P.; sup¬ 
ported on the right by the guest of the evening, W. Robinson, 
Esq., Sir R. Peel, Bart. M.P., Wm, Bass, — Batt, and 
— Willington, Esq., and the Principal Veterinary Surgeon to 
the Army, F. C. Cherry, Esq. On the left by Sir Jas. Tyler, 
Rev. T. Cator, Bransby B. Cooper, T. M. Nelson, W. M. Wil¬ 
kinson, Esqrs., and the Teachers of the Royal Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, Messrs. Spooner, Simonds, Morton, andVarnell: there 
were also present out of the London practitioners Messrs. Field, 
Henderson, Marshall, Gabriel, Ernes, Braby, A. Cherry, 
Broad, Hall, &c. And from the country Messrs. Stockley, 
R.A.; King, of Stanmore ; Silvester, of St. Albans; Burley, 
of Leicester ; Baker, of Sudbury ; Dickens, of Kimbolton ; 
Stanley, of Leamington; Cartledge, of Sheffield, &c. &c. 
The Vice-Chairs were filled by Messrs. Stockley and Hen¬ 
derson. 
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, the chairman rose 
