X.ANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 2‘-^7 
first portion of the question, I would reply, We must carry out, to 
the very letter, our motto—“Vis XJnita Fortior.” We must try 
and rouse every member of the profession, great and small, through¬ 
out the kingdom into action. This at first would appear in many 
instances to be comparatively useless ; but I am of opinion that a 
great deal might he done by every practitioner, both in town and 
country, taking the matter up and introducing it to the notice of 
not only the various members of Parliament personally in their dis¬ 
trict, but to every person of influence ; and by this means you have 
a chance of arguing the matter, which would be of far greater ser¬ 
vice than handing circulars about the Houses of Parliament. There 
are numbers in our profession who could speak personally with 
both the nobility, members of Parliament, and gentry of the 
country. 
I feel confident, if the matter were taken up in this way, and car¬ 
ried through the land, we should stand a very much better chance 
of obtaining our desires and realising our wishes. 
Now, with respect to the Bill itself, there has been a good deal of 
controversy upon the matter of exemption from “juries.” How is 
it, I would ask, that the Pharmaceutical Society has carried this 
point? By leaving it out of the Bill, or not asking for it? Cer¬ 
tainly not. They combined and worked together until they ob¬ 
tained it, and it is now law. I spoke to one of our chemists the 
other day, and he was perfectly astounded when I told him we were 
not exempt from juries. In fact, he could not believe it until he 
referred to the exemptions. What difference would it make to the 
nation, the exemption of some two or three thousand individuals, 
wdio have really and truly as much right to that exemption as any 
of the other learned professions ? I cannot but feel confident, if 
this were properly inserted, and we were determined to fight for it, 
we should eventually obtain it, in spite of the legal opinions which 
I believe have been taken. There are those who argue that it is 
seldom we are called ; but I can lell you, for one, that in my short 
career in Manchester, I have served several times on coroner’s 
juries, and been often asked to serve, as also upon the juries of both 
assizes and sessions ; and I only got off through being styled sur¬ 
geon on the register; hut, independently of all this, it is a great 
loss of time to get off at all, let alone the doubt under which you 
are always labouring. Picture to yourselves being summoned on a 
jury of assizes, for instance—perhaps have to attend there more or 
less for a fortnight or three weeks—and will say you have a number 
of very severe cases on your hands, not only at home, but else¬ 
where. Would you not feel very uncomfortable ? I look upon it, 
gentlemen, as a matter that ought to receive a great deal of atten¬ 
tion, and one which most decidedly should be introduced in the 
Bill. I am sure if the feeling of the profession were taken through¬ 
out the country there would be a large majority in favour of such 
a clause being" introduced, especially from the large towns, where 
juries are frequently required. Our friend Mr. Thomas Greaves, in 
a letter to the Veterinarian of March, 1866, says, “We don’t want 
