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by dining and taking wine with Majesty ; yet is the present, 
we believe, with one single exception* *, and that not one of the 
regular army, the first presentation that has been made at 
Court of an army veterinary surgeon ; and he not belonging to 
the Queen’s army, but — with no feeling of disparagement be it 
spoken — to the Hon. East India Company’s Artillery. Mr. Cul- 
limore, we repeat, stands in the proud situation — and we most 
sincerely and cordially congratulate him on the auspicious event 
— of being the first, and hitherto the sole, veterinary surgeon in 
the regular army who has been led through the threshhold of 
royalty, and presented formally, in propria persona, to his Sove- 
reign ; a distinguished honour, which, from the high standing of 
ours among other courts, is a passport to him to any other regal 
presence in the world. 
Lord Gough — the gallant, the brave, the noble Gough — has 
thus given veterinary science and its professors a lift which will 
not pass out either of their memory or their gratitude. Let 
us hope that there exist other noble lords and commanders in the 
service who will not blush to take their veterinary surgeons by 
the hand, and, as Lord Gough has done, lead them into the pre- 
sence of their Sovereign. 
MISCELLANEA. 
MATICO. — Piper Augustifolium. 
Mr. Dickens, veterinary surgeon, Kimbolton, has made trial of 
this South American herb as a styptic, “ with perfect success.” 
He has used it, instead of the actual cautery, to stanch the 
hemorrhage caused by docking. 
* We allude to Professor Sewell, who was presented as veterinary surgeon 
to the City Light Horse. 
