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going on in the system, for each was in just nice working con- 
dition — sleek in their coats — tolerably lively — respiration natural 
— in no pain — and the appetite very fair ; in short, at first there 
was nothing of much importance but the oedema underneath the 
jaw, and afterwards of the prepuce and abdomen. These cases, I 
think, clearly prove that serous effusion may take place in the ab- 
domen and cellular tissue of the intestines to a great extent in a 
very short space of time, and that we ought to look with great 
suspicion upon cases of swelling of an cedematous character occur- 
ing first under the throat, and afterwards of the scrotum and sub- 
abdominal cellular tissue. I also consider that there is some diffi- 
culty in deciding, in these cases, upon the plan of treatment. One 
would think, from the huffy state of the blood and the absence of 
the usual symptoms of inflammation, that the depletive system 
was not required ; yet, from the suddenness of the attack and the 
general healthy appearance of the animal, it would be required. 
This case also proves that there may be immense effusion of serum 
between the mucous and muscular coats of the intestines without 
the animal evincing any enteritic symptoms until a few hours pre- 
vious to death. 
MR. BARROWMAN’S LETTER TO MR. CHERRY*. 
To the Editors of u The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — I HAVE read, with some degree of surprise, a letter 
from Mr. W. A. Cherry in your last (Sept.) number, and beg you 
will give insertion to the following observations on the latter part 
of it in regard to the special meetings of the Board of Examiners. 
I am a relative of one of those who applied for a special examina- 
tion (not one of the thrice rejected, which I have learned is not true, 
no student having offered himself for examination more than twice) ; 
and I considered it unfair that my relative, after having devoted 
himself to studies for an additional three months, should at the end 
of that time be refused a special examination, when he had done 
so only in consequence of being required to fill a situation in 
America, that refusal for a special examination not being ac- 
companied by any reasons for its not being complied with ; but I 
* This letter — a reply to one from Mr. W. A. Cherry in our Number 
for September — reached us too late for insertion in our October Number, but 
ought, in justice to Mr. Barrowman — to whom we beg to apologize for the 
amission — to have appeared with Mr. Cherry’s reply to it in our impression 
for November. — Ed. Vet. 
