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ON CARPITIS-REGISTRATION — UNCERTIFICATED 
PRACTITIONERS. 
By Arthur Cherry, M.R.C. V.S., London. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — As you have done me the honour to advert to my paper 
on the disease to which I have given the name of “ Carpitis," in 
your valuable paper on “ Splint,” in the last Number of The 
VETERINARIAN, I should wish to correct an error in nomencla- 
ture, which, in some measure, I am answerable for — namely, the 
term which Mr. Cherry (sen.) has chosen to give to the disease ; 
it being an acknowledged plagiarism from a term of my own, 
shortened and slightly altered from the original, which was, “ a 
disease in the knee similar to spavin in the hock.” For the term 
itself, as well as the knowledge of the disease, that gentleman is 
entirely indebted to me, though this has never been acknowledged 
or adverted to, but has been, from the time I made the existence 
of the disease known to that gentleman (some time in the year 
1833), invariably claimed as his own. 
I should not advert to this subject, but I certainly do not like 
so gross a plagiarism to pass uncontradicted ; the more especially, 
as the original investigations and collection of specimens illustra- 
tive of the disease occupied me for more than eighteen months, 
during which time Mr. Cherry was in direct opposition to all my 
views. 
I was well aware of Solleysell’s remarks on what he calls 
Osselets,” but they are not what I define “ Carpitis” to be, 
which a perusal of my paper, I think, will shew. Though carpitis 
is very frequently accompanied by such kind of splint as Solleysell 
describes, yet they are two distinct diseases, affecting different 
structures, and shewing different results as to recovery for useful 
purposes. 
1 see also, in the same Number of your Journal, a letter signed 
“ R. B. P.” Why could he not sign his name ] I do not like to 
notice anonymous communications ; but as the same subject has 
been matter for correspondence between myself and several of our 
country brethren, I shall take notice of the subject, not so much 
for “ R. B. P.” as for the information of the country practitioners 
at large. 
When I first gave notice of motion regarding Registration two 
years ago, the very proposition now made by “ R. B. P.” formed 
