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August ls£. — Slight improvement — still very stiff and lame 
and feverish. Continue the medicines and fomentations. 
9th . — Much the same as when I last saw her. Stimulate the 
loins, hips, and haunches. 
1 5th . — No progress in regard to lameness, although the fever- 
ish symptoms are abated, and the appetite better. I inserted 
several setons over the gluteal muscles and thighs. 
27th . — Slight improvement, so far as the fever and lameness 
is concerned, but she cannot get up without being assisted. I 
blistered the parts that were previously stimulated. 
Sept. 7th . — She walks and feeds better — can get up without 
assistance, and lifts her hind legs up occasionally. 
2 7th . — Great improvement. Blister repeated. From this time 
she gradually improved, and, at the latter end of October, was 
fully restored to health. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1843. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The Secretary of the Charter Committee entreats that every 
graduated veterinary surgeon who has not hitherto communi- 
cated with him will kindly favour him with his name and ad- 
dress. Although there are, probably, but few of whose abode 
he is ignorant, circumstances may occur that may render it de- 
sirable, with the least possible delay, to consult the whole body 
of the profession. 
Mr. Youatt is happy to be permitted to announce, that the 
Journal Committee of the Agricultural Society of England has 
permitted him to have access to the numerous communications 
from every part of the kingdom respecting the epidemic of 1841. 
It will be his duty and his pride to render the history of this 
period as full and as correct as possible. He will be thankful 
for any assistance that may be rendered to him. It shall be 
