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ON INFLAMMATORY FEVER IN CATTLE. 
In regard to the remarks Mr. W. has favoured me with on the 
views I entertain of the effects of tar and its congeners, I may- 
state that they are, equally with myself, believed to be true by 
many of our oldest and best practitioners ; and Mr. W.’s assertion 
that it is a “ farce,” does not deter me from maintaining it to be 
an incontrovertible fact. 
Mr. Wright’s experiment (a very old one, by the way) upon 
portions of dead horn is totally inadmissible, as experiments to 
have any weight must be carried out upon parts in similar states 
of vitality. 
I also confined myself to the description of the primary and 
most important disease to which the horny case is subject, and 
intended to follow this up by remarks upon a similar condition of 
the sole and frog ; and though these, and coronitis, are very fre- 
quently combined, yet it is not by any means an invariable occur- 
rence, and in almost every instance much less in degree and of 
less practical importance than coronitis. 
ON INFLAMMATORY FEVER IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. JOHN Barlow, V.S., Demonstrator , §c. Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. 
I HAVE no doubt many of your readers, and the community at 
large, are anxiously looking forward for the fruits which they have 
a right to expect from the munificent patronage afforded by the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England to the London Veterinary 
College in the appointment and support of a Professor of Cattle 
Pathology at that Institution. Many of the diseases of neat cattle 
are in their nature peculiarly intractable to treat, and the termina- 
tions of some of them are so frequently fatal, as to induce some, 
owners of cattle at once to consign the animals to slaughter, rather 
than incur the risk of medical treatment. Although there are, no 
doubt, diseases of an incurable nature, over which we cannot exert 
any other than preventive or palliative control, fortunate, indeed, 
is it that incurable maladies are perhaps more than curable ones 
within our power of prevention. Thus, whilst in the present state 
of our science there may be some incurable maladies which ex- 
perience teaches us may be prevented, our investigations into their 
intrinsic pathology should be diligently pursued whenever occasions 
offer, in order that, by arriving at the real nature of such diseases, 
those conditions in which they consist, on which they depend, or 
