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treme. We have thought that a deficiency of free acid in the 
stomach might be one of the causes of diabetes ; when sugar is 
treated with any hydrogen acid, it is converted into water and a 
carbonaceous compound. This would indicate the exhibition of 
such medicine or such food as would afford the elements of hydro- 
chloric acid to the stomach. We would give tonics to keep up the 
strength of the animal. It would be of the utmost importance to 
the owners of horses to have the grain and hay, &c., they use for 
their horses thoroughly examined before purchasing. There is not 
the slightest reason to doubt, that the great majority of deaths that 
occur among horses arises from bad food and improper feeding. 
The veterinary surgeon is, or ought to be, able to give the owner 
of horses proper advice as to the quality of food, and the manner 
of feeding, best calculated to insure the safety of the animal, under 
the various trying circumstances to which he is subjected. 
Professor Dick, in his lectures, mentions a case, where by im- 
proper feeding one farmer lost twelve horses within a very short 
time. In this particular case the evil arose from giving too much 
rich food at one time. Knowing the chemical action which should 
take place, and knowing also that it could not take place because 
the stomach was over-loaded, the Professor desired one-half the 
quantity of food to be given at one time, and no more deaths 
occurred. * 
J. M‘ Gillavray, V. S. — Scottish Farmer. 
• THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1848. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
u The first Monday in May ” falling this year, as it does, on the 
first day of May, the present is the only opportunity that remains 
to us of addressing a few words to our professional brethren on the 
subject of their General Meeting, before the time will arrive for 
them to assemble and hold that meeting, fixed by the charter to 
take place on the above-named day. There is no need for us to 
remind them, that this meeting, coming but once a year, and being 
one calling together the veterinary body at large, and one wherein 
business is transacted of more or less interest to all, is a meeting 
to jthem of no ordinary import. Thereat it is that every indivi- 
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