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THE. VETERINARY CHARTER. 
The next is a case of Ptyalism from the application of the un- 
guentum hydrargyri : — 
My first impression was, that it was a case of the eruptive epi- 
zootic, so prevalent at that time among cattle ; but on a minute ex- 
amination I found that she was in a state of salivation. She had been 
very much infested with large black lice, to destroy which the un- 
guentum hydrargyri had been freely used. She was well supported 
with decoction of linseed, and, in a few days, the effects of the mer- 
cury began to subside ; but the result of this was, that the hair of her 
ears sloughed off close to the head, and likewise the points of both 
of the ossa calcis, and to such an extent, that one of the tarsal 
joints was left open, which caused me no little trouble to stop the 
escape of synovia. Her tail, likewise, became almost denuded of 
hair ; nevertheless, she ultimately rallied, and milked well in the 
following summer. 
In the spring of 1842 she became rotten, or affected by consti- 
tutional dysentery — altogether a different disease to what our 
writers call diarrhoea and dysentery : the two latter are diseases of 
mucous membrane of the intestines, — the former is not. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MARCH 1, 1844. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
Our friends, Messrs. Turner and Mayer, request that we re- 
serve all comments on the glorious intelligence which they com- 
municate until the April Number of our Journal. We obey; but 
our feelings of joy and gratitude are truly deep, although not yet 
expressed. The following is the communication from the Presi- 
dent and Secretary : — 
We stop the press to announce, that her most gracious Majesty 
the Queen has been pleased to grant to Thomas Turner, of 311, 
Regent-street, Middlesex, and of Croydon, Surrey; William 
Joseph Goodwin, of Queen’s-mews, Pimlico; Thomas Mayer, 
of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford; William Sewell, of the 
Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town; William Dick, of 
