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ing fit horses, and the balance in his favour of doing them justice. 
It would be worth considering whether, to prevent this evil, it 
would not answer to connect with this school a sort of dispensary 
for curing the poor man’s cattle at a greatly reduced rate of charge, 
or gratis, under proper regulations in necessitous cases. 
5. At present there is not, in public or private study of the 
veterinary art, a sufficiently organized supply of subjects for 
anatomy and lecture, while resorting to the destruction of asses is 
wholly indefensible on principles of humanity, as well as totally 
inadequate to the purposes of examination. In the absence of a 
cause of death, there is nothing to discover of specific disease — no 
contrast in condition, nor sufficient variety in the appearances of 
nature to be exhibited, and therefore no deductions to be made in 
the class of remedies for dislocations or in morbid cases, so that the 
student might as well be employed at the abattoir of the butcher or 
knacker, where he would have the chance of seeing different 
specimens of condition in cattle, as well as some advantage in 
dissection. 
6. By good management in arrangement and details there would 
be various sources of profit belonging to the school, especially from 
the connexion of animal chemistry with agriculture and its ad- 
juncts. 
Lastly : It is worthy of being considered how far a class of com- 
parative animal anatomy should be introduced, which, at least, 
would possess the advantage of raising the profession to a higher 
grade of acquirement, and to a popular standard of usefulness, if not 
of distinction, in the advancing sciences of the age. 
X. 
CASE OF PUERPERAL FEVER TERMINATING 
FATALLY IN TWELVE HOURS. 
By T. D. GREGORY, M. R.C.V.S., Bideford, North Devon. 
On Wednesday last, at eight A.M., I was requested to visit a 
cow that the messenger informed me had fallen, and was unable 
to rise. On my arriving at the residence of the owner, I found the 
patient to be a well-bred Guernsey, about ten.years old, and said to 
be an excellent milker. She had calved on the Monday previous, 
and was treated in the usual way. No untoward symptom was 
discovered until the same morning (Wednesday), when the servant, 
after allowing the calf to suck, fancied she staggered somewhat, 
and did not appear to notice the calf, of which she informed her 
