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Some weeks after, she was found to be much wasted, with 
appetite impaired, skin unhealthy, pulse 24, and respiration 16. 
I gave it as my opinion that the case was one of bad omen, 
since so much apparent mischief could not be expected to arise 
from a superficial abscess. We had her taken up. The 
owner, however, soon becoming dissatisfied, again sent the 
animal to grass, and asked a very young veterinary friend to 
look at her. 
We agreed to attend together. Finding her failing more 
and more at every visit, we continued the tonics and liberal 
diet, adding gruel, & c., until she died, which she did under the 
usual symptoms of anaemia. 
On post-mortem examination , I found, on taking the skin off 
the abdomen, seven sinuses. The liver contained two large 
abscesses, one of which had evidently burst, and deluged the 
intestines with pus and sanies ; in addition to which, there was 
a smaller one in the left kidney. 
The thoracic viscera and muscular tissues in general were 
healthy, though they presented a blanched and softened ap- 
pearance. 
Query . — Was this amount of disease owing to injuries from 
the falls or the checked perspiration ? 
*** Most probably, to the “ injuries.” — E d. Vet. 
STATUS OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
By Samuel Brown, M.R.C.V.S., Melton Mowbray. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — “T he false insidious partisan, who creates or foments 
the disorder, sees the fruits of his dishonest industry ripen beyond 
his hopes, and rejoices in the promise of a banquet, only delicious 
to such an appetite as his own.” 
I regret to see your space occupied by such communications 
on the respectability of the veterinary profession as that which 
appears in your last Number by a Veterinary Surgeon. In my 
opinion it is calculated to sow the seed of discord among the 
members of our humble profession, already too discordant, 
and, at the same time, excite the ridicule, if not the contempt, of 
gentlemen, who in all probability entertain a higher opinion of 
the integrity of their upper servants than they do of that of 
