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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    ( 3° ) is occalioned by deaths owing to the want of fufficient medical afliftance, fo far the lofs is wholly chargeable on the imperfection of far¬ riery. This, as computed by feme diftin- guiffied officers of cavalry, amounts in the army nearly to one third of the horfes which die, either at home or on fervice; each of which cofting government 25/. the lofs is eafily computed/ When, therefore, the col¬ lege offer to government to fupply the army with farriers, duly inftruCted and accredited, at the rate of a farrier for every regiment, and to keep up this fupply by providing a feminary of fuch ftudents for the fervice of the army, it is certainly no ra(h afiertion to. fay, that they offer what in the end will fully compenfate for the temporary aid for which they apply. A deep fenfe of thefe undeniable truths, of the extreme importance of our cattle, of the neceffity of pofleffing the beft medical aflif- tance for their prefervation, and the palpable * The lofs in horfes, dead and caft, in the laft few months, in one department of the army only, and that within the ifland of Great Britain, deferves the rnoft ferious attention from government; and furnifhes the beft teft for trying the juftnefs of our reafoning. inability