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and sunk deep into the orbits ; skin very cold too; lies down, 
looks back, rolls about, but not over; moans, evidently suffering 
excruciating pain ; gets up, kicks her belly ; staggers and tum- 
bles ; great prostration of strength ; rears up on her fore parts, 
then falls down on her side with violence. On inquiring I was 
told that she has purged several times since she has been had 
in the shed. As death was evidently approaching, I did not 
push the treatment. Died at 11 P.M. 
June *26171, 10 A.M., post-mortem appearances. — The papillae 
and leaves of the manyplus (fardel) very red and highly in- 
flamed. Intestines, both the peritoneal and villous coats in- 
flamed, particularly the latter. 
Observations . — Supposed to have eaten veratrum, commonly 
called bearsfoot, which grows in abundance in a wood to which 
this cow, as well as others, have had free access. 
I record these cases of bowel complaints, as diseases of them 
are rare amongst cows, in comparison to that of horses, which 
is attributable to the uniform habits and feeding of the former ; 
for in this class of animals affections of the digestive and ali- 
mentary organs are invariably produced by a sudden change of 
diet, or from eating noxious herbage. 
I am, Sir, your’s respectfully. 
RESPECTABILITY OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
By W. P. Stanley, M.R.C.V.S. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — Having read the article in your June Number re- 
lative to the respectability of the veterinary profession, and your 
anonymous writer having asserted that many of us are guilty of 
a dishonest fraudulent practice in charging our employers for 
medicines and horseshoes which were never supplied, pur- 
posely to fee the grooms, and to obtain our support, and naming, 
amongst other places, Leamington, where such practices exist, 
and myself being the individual to whom such an aspersion 
applies, and which, Sir, you can, if you choose, upon inquiry, 
find has only reference to me, I deem it a duty I owe to myself 
and the profession to trouble you with a few lines ; and beg to 
say, that I will defy your correspondent to prove a single dis- 
honest fraudulent transaction against me, or substantiate any 
charge that has been made at this establishment but what is 
reasonable and just. I beg also to express my surprise that you 
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