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VETERINARY ANNUITY FUND. 
A Letter from Mr. R. H. Dyer, Jersey . 
Gentlemen, — O n perusing Mr. Anderson’s letter in your last 
Number, I feel with him how many difficulties professional men 
have to encounter. That such a fund as he has advocated has 
never been before proposed in this country is, to me, an extraordi- 
nary affair, when we look around us and behold the recently formed 
Pharmaceutical Society giving to its members all the advantages 
which they can desire, and that too in the short space of four or 
five years; whilst our profession, which has been established more 
than fifty years, should remain almost in statu quo. If all the 
members of our body would step forward and commence the un- 
dertaking to which 1 have alluded, instead of pecking at each 
other like so many birds, I could hope the profession would, in a 
very short time, become what it ought to be, a respectable and 
honourable one. 
I most cordially agree in the valuable remarks Mr. Anderson 
has made in hjs communication, and shall, for one, be happy .to 
contribute my mite in establishing so philanthropic an undertaking 
as a General Annuity Fund, trusting others will, without delay, 
come to the same conclusion. 
Remaining, Messrs. Editors, 
In haste, your’s, & c. 
March 16th, 1846. 
PERFORATION OF THE SCULL TO DRAW OFF THE 
WATER, FOR THE CURE OF HYDROCEPHALUS 
IN CATTLE. 
By John Relph, M.R.C.V.S . , Sebergham. 
With your leave, I would occupy a small portion of your Journal 
with a brief account of such mechanical means as I have seen used 
for the cure of hydrocephalus in cattle. Much of the advantage 
derivable from personal attendance on disease has, in this instance, 
been sacrificed to negligence, in not keeping a record of the few 
cases that have occurred in my practice : therefore 1 shall only al- 
lude to the more prominent symptoms retained in the memory, 
