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he knows as much as we do. The very lowest order of my 
own countrymen, I regret to acknowledge, are often most 
unsatisfactory customers to deal with. From their youth 
upwards unaccustomed to the possession of money, they 
suddenly acquire wealth, and are ignorant in the disposal of 
it ; being foolishly extravagant sometimes in unnecessary 
things, they are close in the procuration of those that are 
necessary. 
On reading over these pages, I had nearly resolved not to 
send them, and that for two reasons ; first, I find I have 
written so much, and yet told you so little ; secondly, on 
account of the incoherency of the style. But as all bad 
writers give reasons for their mistakes, I give mine, and they 
are genuine. 1st, I write in the midst of business ; 2dly, under 
the disagreeable influence of hot winds. In conclusion, I 
have often thought, since I have been abroad, how valuable 
students ought to consider their college days; for the time 
may come, as it has with myself, w 7 hen they will be debarred 
the advantage of consulting the heads of the profession. 
For when I thought it would have been my lot to have been 
associated in a veterinary capacity w 7 ith the 
“Pomp and circumstance of glorious war,” 
I then knew that I could occasionally enjoy these privileges. 
It is, however, otherwise now 7 , being sixteen thousand miles 
distant. It therefore behoves students, not knowing under 
what circumstances they may be placed in after life, to be 
careful of their time, as it can never be recalled ; and to let 
sf your instructions live w ithin the book and volume of their 
brain, unmixed with baser matter.” 
I remain, Gentlemen, 
Yours very truly. 
CHRONIC AND RECURRING DIARRHCEA, accom- 
panied with (EDEMA AND DEPILATXON. 
By J. Carless, Jun., M.R.C.V.S., Stoke-upon-Trent. 
About the end of the year 1855, 1 was called in to examine 
and prescribe for a bay gelding, of the hackney breed, be- 
longing to E. B. Hamill, Esq., of Tamworth. 
The complaint he w 7 as then labouring under was diarrhoea ; 
and, on learning the history of his case, I found that he had 
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