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position of the head, a weak and frequent pulse, accompanied 
with profuse diarrhoea (particularly in the cow), a disinclina- 
tion to move, or want of power, consequent on the great 
prostration which is always present, are the ordinary symp- 
toms. 
When the acid has been much diluted, and taken in a very 
considerable quantity, I have seldom witnessed any marked 
indications of abdominal pain. 
Any further information I may possess on this subject, I 
shall be most happy to communicate to the profession if 
required. 
I am, Gentlemen, yours obediently, & c. 
MEMOIRS OF A VETERINARY SURGEON. 
THOUGHTS ON LAMINITIS. 
By Thos. Greaves, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
Relentless persecutor ! What art thou? Whence comest 
thou? With what precious talisman shall I bribe thee to 
relax thy cruel and torturing grasp? Will neither gentle 
nor desperate means induce thee to relent and change thy 
direful and weird determination of tearing down thy miser- 
able and suffering victim ? 
These thoughts, or some like them, have, I doubt not, 
often occurred to the minds of other practitioners besides my 
self, when standing by the side of their suffering patient, an 
eyewitness to the unsuccessful result of the best efforts made 
to afford relief. For my own part, when my patient’s coun- 
tenance seems to implore my aid, I always feel overpowered 
with a sense of deep humiliation on finding, to my unavailing 
regret, the inefficiency of our acknowledged remedies in many 
cases of this most distressing disease. 
Of all the anxieties and perplexities of life, there are, I 
presume, none to a sensitive mind more insupportable than 
the full sense of his own abject impotence and helplessness. 
The young practitioner, armed for every emergency with a 
mind well stored with rules, facts, and principles, and backed 
with an abundance of theoretical knowledge, may not at first 
comprehend these sentiments, but let him be in close, con- 
stant, wearing contact with the realities of life for twenty 
years, and he will find, if he takes any interest at all in his 
