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and the breathing is natural. From this time he gradually 
recovered. 
I saw him on the 1 st of October last ; he was then very 
fat, but quite blind of both eyes from amaurosis. I would just 
add, that I tried injections of a stimulating kind to the eyes, 
with blisters applied to the cheeks, but without any perma- 
nent good. 
Never having seen or read of a similar case I have thought 
it might prove not unworthy of a place in your very valuable 
Journal, and elicit the opinion of the profession as to the seat 
of the lesion. 1 confess I am at a loss to say whether the 
ciliac or anterior mesenteric arteries, or the vessels of the liver 
or the spleen, were the seat of the lesion. 
ON THE STANDING AND EDUCATION OF THE 
VETERINARY SURGEON. 
By W. G. Reeve, M.R.C.V.S. 
“ Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes 
Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros.” — Ovid. 
To the Editors of the c Veterinarian? 
Sirs, — As the status of the veterinary surgeon seems, 
some time since, to have engaged the attention of several of 
your correspondents, I have waited with much expectation 
for some further remarks respecting so engrossing a subject, 
and cannot but feel disappointed that a question so interest- 
ing and important should have received so little attention. 
In the absence, therefore, of a more able pen, I take the 
liberty of reviving the discussion, trusting that the sentiment 
contained in the above motto may be accepted as my 
apology. 
Upon referring to the Journal, I find that a “ sporting 
surgeon” has gratuitously insulted the profession by some 
rude, egotistical remarks, and subsequently, he has been 
well castigated for his pains. This he deserved, for how T - 
ever well he may have striven to hide the appendages, the 
ears too plainly passed through the skin he had donned 
to prevent the recognition of the quadruped. I would 
not have honoured him with notice, but that the very in- 
significance of the animal has, in a measure, made him ser- 
viceable. 
He has suggested a disparity between the veterinary sur- 
