402 THE PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
The conclusions I have arrived at from a moderate experi- 
ence of this disease, so far as its treatment is concerned, are — 
That most of us do too much ; this is not a disease that will 
admit of elaborate doctoring. Bleeding, blistering, physicing, 
sheepskins hot, daily applied, &c. & c., had better be prac- 
tised on cases of a less serious character, where a detailed 
onslaught may be made with impunity. I do not know that 
prussic acid even is necessary, but I have never seen it do 
harm and I think, as in Case 10, I have seen its disconti- 
nuance lead to an aggravation of the symptoms. 
That the most favorable sign is the continued sucking of 
suitable food, and on this alone, for the most part, will the 
prognosis depend. 
That most reliance is to he placed on good lodgings, suita- 
ble food and drink, attention to local lesions, a careful quiet 
attendance (not a curious one, that must be going every hour 
to see how the animal is getting on” — a visit morning and 
night is all that is necessary) ; and that till something better 
he found, hydrocyanic acid (Scheele’s) , given as stated here, 
will be my sheet-anchor. 
Would it not he well at this time, when we have all the 
advancement of the profession so much at heart, that every 
month some one should “ draw ” upon his “ case-book ” to 
furnish us, through the pages of the Veterinarian , with a 
short account of the management and termination of (say) 
six or twelve cases of — 
Epizootic Influenza. Difficult Parturition. Results of 
Neurotomy. Parturient Apoplexy (Milk Fever). Quittor 
and other injuries to the Coronet. Canker. Sand-crack. 
False Quarter, &c . ; and Fractures and Amputations. 
THE PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
By John Gerrard, M.R.C.V.S., Lincolnshire. 
The laws of scientific progress, as well as of social bene- 
volence, require that every man should endeavour to assist 
others by the results of his experience. He that has at last 
escaped into port from the fluctuations of chance and the 
gusts of opposition, ought to make some improvements in the 
chart of life, by marking the rocks on which he has been 
dashed, and the shallows where he has been stranded. 
It may at first sight seem strange that, out of some fifteen 
