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Volume 9 Issue 4

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Charles Dickens, The Royal Veterinary College and the Veterinary Profession Charels Dickens lived in Camden Town from the age of ten. He mentions the Veterinary College in two of his novels, including a reference to the cruelty of live vivisection being carried out by students. Dickens had an interest in animals and became a great supported of the RSPCA. R J M Franklin To the Pillory for Putrid Poultry; Meat Hygiene and the Medieval London Butchers, Poulterers and...

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Volume 9 Issue 2 & 3

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A Short History of the British Army Veterinary Services William Gibson, following a military career, was in veterinary charge of military horses in London in the mid-eighteenth century. William Stockley, one of the first diplomates of the London Veterinary College, was the first qualified vet to join the army in a veterinary capacity and became senior veterinary surgeon to the Royal Artillery. After the disastrous Flanders Campaign of 1794-95, resulting in appalling losses of...

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Volume 9 Issue 1

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The Mayers of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Their Place in the Emerging Veterinary Profession A history of the Mayer family of Newcastle-under-Lyme, two generations of farriers and two of veterinary surgeons. Thomas Walton Mayer qualified form the London Veterinary College in 1835. He and his father led a campaign to break the grip of medical men on London Veterinary College, headed by Coleman. After Coleman’s death in 1839, the Mayers wrote to all 700 graduates of the London...

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