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gasp. I repeated this several times; the weakness, however, 
quickly increased, and the animal fell at half past six o’clock, P.M. 
He lay very quiet on the ground for some time, and appeared 
to get weaker, and died during the night, having never been 
able to rise or scarcely to raise his head, and, several hours before 
death, only able to move his legs, in consequence of having 
become paralyzed. 
Post-mortem examination . — Lungs perfectly healthy ; the right 
lobe filled with black blood (the side on which he lay). Bowels 
very healthy, and contents quite fluid; bladder full of urine. 
I took the head away, sawed off at the third cervical vertebra, 
for especial examination. In lifting off the bony covering of the 
brain, a quantity of matter gushed out from the right hemi- 
sphere of it. On careful examination, I found a sac or abscess 
perfectly organized within the substance of the brain, directly 
under its investing tunics, about the size of a hen’s egg, full of 
pus, in the superior part of the right lobe of the cerebrum, which I 
had inadvertently touched with the saw. I was very pleased to see 
it, as the cause of death was so perfectly satisfactory. The near eye 
was first affected. The abscess is in the off or right hemisphere. 
This was caused, I supposed, by the decussation of the optic nerves. 
From the organized condition of the abscess, I have no doubt it 
had been forming for many months, though, most likely, putting 
the horse in harness excited fresh action in the brain, and brought 
about the catastrophe. The abstraction of blood evidently hastened 
death. 
REMARKS ON REGISTRATION AND UNCERTIFICATED 
PRACTITIONERS. 
By T. Jones, M.R.C.V.S. 
Sir, — I HOPE that you will pardon me the liberty I take in 
writing to you, particularly as I am at present out of the profes- 
sion, being in the capacity of traveller to a company of wholesale 
druggists; an occupation that brings me in connexion with an 
immense number of veterinary practitioners, and, as a matter of 
course, veterinary affairs form one of the principal topics of conver- 
sation. To the subject of registration my attention has repeatedly 
been drawn, but more especially of late, on account of a letter 
which appeared in the last Number of The Veterinarian from 
the able pen of Mr. Arthur Cherry. I, in common with many others, 
consider that production no less creditable to himself than ser- 
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