PHRENIC HERNIA. 
503 
1 hope I may not be charged as guilty of blowing my own 
trumpet, in informing you that there is not a more ardent 
labourer in this country in the cause of veterinary science 
than myself. I have written over three thousand pages of 
manuscript for our agricultural periodicals, without receiving 
one cent remuneration ; and have delivered a great number 
of free lectures before agricultural societies in the States 
of Ohio, Maine, and Massachusetts, and before the Legis- 
latures of the two latter States, and have always urged upon 
my hearers the importance of establishing veterinary colleges 
in this republic. Last year I had the satisfaction, aided by 
a few friends, of obtaining from our Legislature a bill incor- 
porating The Boston Veterinary Institute, and have since 
laboured diligently in endeavouring to secure contributions 
for its endowment. I submit the preceding paragraph to 
show that I am not a depraved medical sinner; that there 
are redeeming points in my professional character, and that 
I am not the vile empiric the sender of those handbills would 
have you suppose. 
I have no fault to find with your remarks, they are tem- 
pered with charity, and I rejoice to know that 1 have fallen 
into the hands of foemen that can well afford to be merciful. 
I am, Gentlemen, with respect, 
Your obedient servant. 
To the Editors of the * Veterinarian 
CASES OF PHRENIC HERNIA. 
By C. Dickens, M.R.C.Y.S., Kimbolton. 
It is pleasing to observe, from your ‘‘Notices to Corre- 
spondents/ 5 that you have always plenty of (s corn in Egypt 
the supply forwarded to your Journal being more than equal 
to the demand. May such continue to be the case. But 
should at any time the contents of this paper, in the absence 
of better matter, be thought by you worthy of insertion, they 
are much at your service. 
Possibly it may be considered more pleasing to report the 
successful results of novel operations, the benefits derived 
from the progress of mechanical ingenuity, or the employ- 
ment of -some rrew medicinal agent, than to register fatal 
cases ; yet the latter are often both instructive and interesting. 
They serve, at any rate, to assist us in our future diagnosis, 
and sometimes they confirm the opinions which have been 
