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Volume 8 Issue 3 & 4

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The Weybridge Veterinary Laboratory During the Second World War A personal account of the author of working at the Weybridge Veterinary Laboratory during the Second World War. An outline of working there before the war and the staffing at the start of the war. Various bombing raids in London and near the Laboratory are described. Veterinary research carried on throughout the war, with the aim to prevent any outbreaks of any notifiable diseases. Sulphonamide drugs were becoming...

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Volume 8 Issue 1 & 2

Written by Glenn on . Posted in Volume 8.

The Struggle for the Charter of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1844 The granting of the Royal Charter in 1844 was the culmination of a long struggle to gain recognition of veterinary surgery as a profession. The struggle began in 1840 but the roots go back to the beginning of veterinary education. Edward Coleman became principal of The London Veterinary College in 1794 and remained in the post until he died in 1839. He had temporarily reduced the veterinary course...

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