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not very honorable. The doctor is called to a patient — he writes 
out his prescription. The patient’s friends are not allowed to go 
to any druggist they choose; but must go to the one to whom 
the doctor addresses his prescription. There, an account of all 
the doctor sends is kept, the party calling for medicine paying 
on delivery ; and the doctor has his yearly transactions summed 
up at the new year, receiving his per centage from the druggist 
for sending his patients. 
I am, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
J. Horsburgh. 
Dalkeith. 
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YEARS OF AGE. 
By Francis Blakeway, Veterinary Surgeon, Kidderminster. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Sir, — CONSIDERING the following rather a rare case, I beg 
to submit it to your notice. 
On the 16th of July, I was called early in the morning to 
attend a black horse, belonging to Mr. Parry, a farmer, in this 
neighbourhood, which the man reported to be “ griped.” On 
my arrival, 1 found the horse sweating profusely, evincing 
great pain, with a hard and quick pulse : in short, shewing 
every appearance of violent inflammation in the bowels. 
On inquiry, I gained the following information : — The morn- 
ing before he had shewn some symptoms of pain, but which 
subsiding, it did not hinder his being taken to work as usual. 
At night, however, the pains returned in an aggravated form, 
and for them he had administered to him some warm ale, which 
afforded slight relief. But he was again attacked, and this 
time, from straining violently, voided a considerable quantity of 
hardened dung. Thinking from this that all would now go on 
right, and seeing him somewhat composed, they left him for 
the night. On the following morning I found him exhibiting 
the symptoms above described. Taking it to be a case of 
enteritis, I treated him as follows: — Hydr. chlor. 3ij, in soft 
ball; solut. aloes §viij ; pulv. opii 3ij, in draught; and I bled 
to the extent of cong. ij. But upon passing my arm up to back- 
rake him, prior to clystering, I confess I was at first somewhat 
astonished to feel a mass of intestines, as it were, inside the 
rectum. I immediately informed the owner that a rupture of 
