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every part and organ in the body must incur this responsibility, is 
absolute nonsense. It is the same as saying, because a horse has 
what we call curly (not curbed) hocks — by which he means hocks 
of that make or shape that are predisposed to curbs — he is there- 
fore returnable, after purchase, whenever he may chance under any 
circumstances to throw out a curb ; or, because a horse is a crib- 
biter, ergo , if he should happen to die of a fit of cholic, his price 
is recoverable, seeing that crib-biting is a very common cause of 
cholic. We find, however, we have still remaining too much on 
our hands to be able, within the space we can afford, to wind up 
this important question this month. We hope to do so next. 
Amid the reflections and indignities to which veterinary sur- 
geons, on occasions, because they are veterinary surgeons , are 
subjected, it is pleasant and refreshing from time to time to behold 
one of our proscribed body placed in a station of honour deserv- 
edly merited by the estimation, private and professional, in which 
he as an individual is held not only by those doing duty with him 
in the same regiment, but even by others who from their exalted 
stations — in command of armies in place of regiments — would 
hardly be expected to know, even by name, of such persons, much 
less to possess any knowledge of their several qualifications and 
characters. We have been led into making these remarks by the 
announcement, in the newspapers of the 7th March last, that there 
was presented at the levee held the day previous by H. R. H. 
Prince Albert — all such presentations being officially noted to be 
“ equivalent” to those to Majesty itself — 
“Mr. D. Cullimore, Veterinary Surgeon, Bengal Horse Artillery, by 
Viscount Gough:” 
an announcement, we repeat, which is most cheering to our droop- 
ing spirits, after the long, dreary, dark night of veterinary abey- 
ance and obscurity. Notwithstanding that a veterinary surgeon, 
now “dead and gone,” of questionless talent, of acknowledged 
medical fame, and by whom light has been shed upon veterinary 
science brighter than has appeared since his time, was created, late, 
indeed! too late in life, a F.R.S. ; and notwithstanding the day 
has been when a veterinary surgeon has been graciously honoured 
