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their capital, to the whole and sole pursuit of this important sub- 
ject, and who receive in return but a very scanty reward for their 
labour under the best circumstances, to whom such proceedings 
as above adverted to are fraught with ruin. It will drive from 
the ranks of the veterinary profession all that are valuable ; and 
when, too late, the eyes of the suffering stock-owners are opened, 
they will look in vain for aid. They must not forget that they 
owe a heavy debt to the veterinary art— a debt that is becoming 
heavier every day, and which very circumstance proves that they 
(the stock owners) are more and more the gainers by the process ; 
for whatever tends towards the better management of disease, 
tends also to the advantage of the stock owner, by diminishing his 
losses. Thus it will be evident to all reflecting minds, that the 
best interests of the agriculturists are identical with the improve- 
ment of the veterinary art, and, unless the practitioner of that art 
is properly supported and fairly remunerated, there must be an end 
of all improvement. 
The attempt to make any one man omniscious, is to return to 
the very infancy of civilized society, and is so completely at va- 
riance with the natural order of progressive change, that the at- 
tempt will only entail failure ; and it is to be hoped that it will 
not be pursued to such an extent as to be irretrievable. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant, 
Alexander Henderson. 
Cockspur Street, 
Aug. 15, 1846. 
DEFORMITY OF THE OS FRONTIS FROM GLANDERS. 
Dear Sir, — I HAVE seen several cases of glanders since I have 
been in business, but never saw a case before where the bone was 
so much diseased as in a case recently under my notice. It was 
taken first with the influenza, and in four months it turned out a 
confirmed case of glanders. The os frontis was so much affected 
as to cause quite a deformed face. Thinking you would like to 
hear of the case, and knowing it my duty to inform you of it, I 
do it with pleasure, begging to remain, 
Dear Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
G. B. Webb, Baltham. 
W. Percivall, Esq. 
