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CHAPTER VIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



Even as all things sooner or later must come to an end — for 

 even ** kings and queens and princes must, like all men else, soon 

 come to dust^' — so at length we have, after some labour, arrived 

 at the close of our task. Whpn we concluded our series of 

 articles on " The Diseases and Disorders of the Ox " in the 

 Yorkshire Weekly Post we wrote as follows : — 



" At the instant when our kind and indulgent readers shall be 

 glancing their eyes upon these words, this eventful year of grace, 

 1887, in which so much has happened that will bring forth its 

 abundance of fruit in the future, this year, in which Her Majesty's 

 Jubilee has been celebrated with so much splendour and rejoicing, 

 will be rapidly ebbing away further and further, while its last 

 few remaining sands fall down and sink for ever into the bottom- 

 less gulf of the past. 



** And now ; as we conclude our review of * The Diseases and 

 Disorders of the Ox,' it is with a twofold feeling that we do 

 so ; for while on the one hand we cannot but feel glad — we say 

 it in all modesty — to think that we have done and completed 

 some arduous work which can never be altogether lost, on the 

 otlier we do realise that the subject is one even as yet in its 

 infancy, and one in regard to which our successors in the future 

 will doubtless devote much earnest attention to the no small 

 benefit of mankind in many most important ways, the chief of 

 which is the light which bovine pathology will throw upon the 

 diseases of human beings. We have done our best in the past 

 year to give the latest and the most reliable information in regard 



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