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with such laudable zeal and becoming emulation , as enabled them 
to support a periodical which has for its objects the welfare and 
advancement of the veterinary art . 
I am, dear Sir, 
Yours truly. 
December V6th } 1853. 
*** We cordially return our thanks, with all the good 
wishes of the season, to our professional brother and well 
wisher, Mr. Samuel Brown. That the Veterinarian , now 
commencing its twenty-seventh anniversary, has ever 
had other te objects” than those Mr. Brown has ascribed 
to it, we challenge contradiction. Its pages are open to 
every honest pen, no matter how narrow its calibre, so that 
its charge be substantial : they are shut only against the pen 
that would strew them with contention, and in the end break 
up their constitution altogether. There are many gentlemen 
in the profession, clothed with the grey hairs of honour and 
experience, who might leave behind them, in the Veterinarian , 
reminiscences of practice of a character at once of the 
utmost service to professional posterity, and such as would 
afford themselves, in after years, very great satisfaction in 
being able to see their labour of some utility to the profession 
they have lived by and still revere. Shall we for once — or 
ever again — hear from such estimable quarters? — or will they, 
like the empiric and his nostrum, suffer life’s door to become 
closed, with the secrets in them, unrevealed ? — Ed. Vet. 
FLOODING AFTER LABOUR IN A COW. 
By W. Cox, M.R.C.Y.S., Ashbourn. 
On the third of the present month, Mr. Hardy, of Car- 
sington, near Wirksworth, requested my attendance on a 
cow of his. I found she had calved the day previous. The 
calf coming in a wrong position, the assistance of a friend of 
mine was procured, Mr. Bowler, a neighbouring farmer, who 
succeeded very soon in effecting delivery. But, from that 
time the cow became ill, refusing all food, &c. 
Symptoms. — The pulse was very quick, but weak ; the 
membranes blanched; quick, or rather laborious, breathing, 
which was more intense when the animal was standing; ap- 
parent constipation; the extremities cold, and nose dry. 
Suspecting ruptured uterus, I introduced my arm. Although 
the cow had discharged very little, I found it to be a case of 
