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EMBOLISM OF THE ILIAC ARTERIES. 
it has been denounced by high authority as a “ farce,” it is a 
“ farce ” which requires a good deal of training and teaching 
of the various actors to enable them to act their parts so as 
to ensure them being called before the curtain. 
The relations of society towards the profession are gradually 
changing for the better, but there is still great room for im- 
provement. It seems strange that the most lucrative appoint- 
ment rightfully belonging to the profession should be given to 
a medical man. One would almost think it inconsistent with 
the duties of a member of the sister science to hold the 
appointment of Cattle Inspector to the Privy Council : but 
mammon is everything now-a-days. When the legislature 
can so ignore the claims of the profession as to appoint a 
medical man to a place that should by right and justice be 
conferred on some of its members, need we wonder at local 
authorities appointing police officers as cattle inspectors all over 
the country. We may despair of seeing any change in this 
state of matters until an association be formed and an agitation 
set on foot by a united profession. In these days of increased 
representation and liberal measures, it is not too much for the 
veterinary profession to ask to be allowed to have a representa- 
tive elected by its members to look after their interests. What 
more fit or grateful tribute of respect or esteem for any mem- 
ber of the profession, after a long, disinterested, and successful 
career, than to be returned by his fellows as their representa- 
tive to the British House of Commons ! ! ! ! 
I find, however, that I am entering on new and debatable 
territory, and diverging from the scientific path. I shall con- 
clude by expressing the hope that the points touched upon 
may be productive of increased activity, and the ideas advanced 
may tend to engage the attention of some of the older members, 
and incite to action in the cause of organization, to enforce our 
rights and advance our interests ; at the same time not losing 
sight of the scientific part, which will, I doubt not, best enable us 
to attain to a higher importance in the estimate of mankind. 
DESCRIPTION OP THE POST-MORTEM EXAMI- 
NATION OP THE ANIMAL AFFECTED WITH 
EMBOLISM OF THE ILIAC ARTERIES. 
(Case described at p. 182, vol. xliv.) 
By Samuel Littler, M.R.C.Y.S., Long Clawson. 
The grey mare whose ailment I described in the March 
number of the Veterinarian as “ Embolism of the Iliac Arte- 
