CASE OF A COW. 
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him working for the Marquis of Dalhousie; further, that 
Mr. Main ought to be punished for cruelty to animals,” which 
I have no doubt he told him. The poor animal was drawn 
on till he could actually go no longer, when his driver asked 
Mr. Main if he would go for me to see what could be done. 
My firing one horse*s legs, dividing the nerves at the fetlocks, 
or what is called performing neurotomy on another, seemed 
to have hurt the feelings of his office keeper, Mrs. Inglis, (he 
keeps an office at the farm about 200 yards from his own 
house,) added to which, she had been told I said he ought to 
be punished for cruelty to animals. I was at once condemned 
as the most cruel, and — the man was told by the parties — 
“they had had plenty of me.” He treated the horse for 
some time himself, with Lieutenant James’s blister, to the 
spavined hock, not to the part where it was lame, till tired 
of that, Houston was sent for with his punch. It is not less 
than eighteen months since this took place. In that time he 
has been punched three times, and every time the spavin is 
getting much larger; he has been idle, and now likely ever 
to be so; he was sent last spring to Coulston, an estate 
belonging to the Marquis, near Haddington, under pretence to 
be tried by Mr. Cockburn, Veterinary Surgeon, Haddington, 
(Mr. Cockburn being long before gone to Glasgow,) but 
actually to see if they would work him to death, or kill him 
out of reach of Dalhousie. But, no; they sent him back 
living; he is again being punished; and there he stands a 
living proof of ignorance and stupidity, with a loss of £45, 
two years* keep, and expense for Mr. Main*s quack medicine, 
veterinary surgeons, firing, blistering, medicine, attendance, 
and punching ! — how much I do not know. 
I am, &c. 
MR. HUDSON’S CASE OF A COW. 
(Continued from p.437 of Veterinarian for August.) 
The cow was suffered to live until the 2d of July, being 
about a fortnight from the operation. The wound suppurated 
and progressed as well as could be expected ; but the post- 
mortem will show that there was something worse in the 
back ground. 
Post-mortem examination . — On reflexing back the abdo- 
minal muscles, the peritoneal covering was seen to be studded 
over with warty excrescences, varying in size, as also was the 
