638 REMOVAL OF A LARGE MALIGNANT TUMOUR. 
they are about to enter. What the amount of education 
required would be, must rest with the profession, or rather 
with those to whom the authority would be delegated. Thus, 
the veterinary schools or colleges would be open to all, but 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons closed to the 
illiterate. It would soon be publicly known, that each mem- 
ber entitled to sign himself a M.R.C.V.S. was an educated 
man ; the diploma of the body corporate would be a passport 
to good society, and the term veterinary surgeon would be 
synonymous w 7 ith that of gentleman. 
Fearful of trespassing too far upon your valuable space, I 
am compelled to stop. Should these few observations, how- 
ever, be favorably received, I will do myself the honour, in 
the succeeding number of your Journal, of addressing to you 
a few words upon the second drawback to the profession, 
viz., its connection with the shoeing forge. 
I have the honour to subscribe myself, sirs. 
Your obedient servant. 
Stirling Terrace, Camberwell. 
REMOVAL OF A LARGE MALIGNANT TUMOUR 
FROM THE NECK OF A HORSE. 
By R. P. Foster, Spalding. 
In May last I was consulted respecting an enlargement 
upon a mare’s neck, which had been forming for four years, 
but of late it had become so large that the collar could not be 
got off and on. When I saw her, I found she was one of my old 
patients, which I had treated several times before for the 
same malady, but without success. This was before she was 
in the present owner’s possession. When I was first called 
to her, I wanted to dissect the tumour out, as it was then 
only about the size of a swan’s egg. To this, however, the owner 
would not consent. The treatment I then adopted consisted 
of setons, blisters, and the application of preparations of 
iodine ; all which were tried without effect ; and since then it 
has continued to enlarge, until now it is as big as a large 
pumpkin. Upon examining it, I gave the owner but little 
hope of cure, as it was, as I thought, situated in a very dan- 
gerous place, namely, on the front of the trachea ; and it ex- 
tended, from the throat down as far as where the collar rests, 
and up both sides of the neck, under, and misplacing both 
