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CASES OF QUARTER-EVIL, OR STRIKING. 
In these times of general depression — of depression in the book- 
trade in particular — it will be something if we even spin out our 
Journal for a quarter of a century : we would fain have said, half 
a century, but that is a day we ourselves may never see: die 
when it may, however, The VETERINARIAN will cease to exist 
but from one cause alone — from the withdrawal of that kind and 
liberal support it has uniformly met with at the hands of the 
profession. 
We are too late to wish our friends “ a merry Christmas before 
they read this they will have eaten, and almost forgotten the flavour 
of, their Christmas pudding. We may, however, and we most 
sincerely do, wish them all “ a happy New Year may they live 
to see many such, and we to offer them our seasonable gratula- 
tions ! The school boy’s carol, 
“ Christmas comes but once a year, 
And when it comes it brings good cheer,” 
still charms our ear with pleasing reminiscences, still invites us to 
jollity at this par excellence feastful season; and we hold we have 
a sort of patent right to make the most of it; therefore we say, 
“ buvons mes amis” 
In thus mirthfully ushering in the new year, we must not take 
final leave of the old one before we have cordially thanked our 
good correspondents for all past favours : without their kind aid 
we should be nothing ; with it, and with the heaps of unused ma- 
terials we have yet around us, we may possibly manage to extend 
the life of The VETERINARIAN to sixteen years longer. But we 
will not anticipate. We will continue to pursue that path — of 
truth and justice — which we from the first planted ourselves in ; 
and so long as the principles therein found, and our own good and 
true friends, will support us, we shall not fail to be forthcoming. 
Editors. 
CASES OF QUARTER-EVIL, OR STRIKING. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, V.S., Whitchurch, Salop. 
Case I. — On the morning of the 12th October, 1843, I was sent 
for to a year-old ox-bullock that was thought to have put his 
shoulder out. I saw him about 9 A.M. : he was lying down at full- 
length on his side. His respiration was quite calm. The man 
turned him over, as he said it was the other side that he was lame 
on, when I immediately saw that he was struck in the shoulder. 
He was killed. 
