A brief examination of the views of the Veterinary College and of the grounds of their petition presented to the House of Commons.

Date:
1795
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Credit: A brief examination of the views of the Veterinary College and of the grounds of their petition presented to the House of Commons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to afcertain, brings this argument to an eafy conclulion; and furnifhes us with a conveni¬ ent proof, that the lofs which the country fuftains in the horfes of the army is very con- fiderable, and further, that a material part of this lofs is occafioned by the want of knowledge and Ikill in thofe to whom the care of their healthy is confided. The returns from the different regiments eftablifli the quantum of lofs ; and the remarkable inftances of fuccefs whenever perfons of medical fcience have de- fcended to undertake their cure, efpecially in cafes of gun (hot or other wounds which abfo- lutely demand furgical knowledge, confirms the faving which would be made by appoint¬ ing fuch perfons only to the care of the dif- eafed horfes. From this ignorance of the farriers, and the increafed mortality occafioned by it, there re¬ fill ts to the public the neceffity of keeping up a flock in order to fupply thefe Ioffes, confide- rably greater than would be the cafe were the Ioffes fewer. And this increafed flock, by confuming what would otherwife be converted into corn or paftureforthe fuftenance of man, contributes to raife the price of the common neceffaries of life. As far then as this excefs is