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THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1850. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
So lengthy run our communications for this month that we find 
we must compress any remarks we may have to make into as small 
a compass as possible. Our subscribers will be glad to see Mr. 
Haycock again in the field of practical inquiry : they will like- 
wise hail with pleasure Mr. Smith’s en! ranee on a similar research. 
Labourers such as these furnish the materials out of which vete- 
rinary pathology in time will raise a scientific structure not un- 
worthy of that art which cannot be said to have arrived 
at the degree of perfection expected of it until the day when 
it can fully urge its claims, intellectual as well as legal, to a seat 
by the side of human medicine. The only sure road to this, on the 
one hand, is along the step by step practical investigation which 
Mr. Haycock has from the first been pursuing; while, on the other 
hand, we shall in the course of time obtain all we may desire 
through the instrumentality of the Charter. Led by its sister 
Science on one side, and supported by the strong arm of the Law on 
the other, the veterinary art, taught and prosecuted as it deserves 
to be, cannot fail, in the end, to arrive at the goal of its fullest anti- 
cipations. 
We hear from almost all quarters of “ influenza” fearfully raging 
again among horses. It nowise appears to differ in its type and 
tendency from similar visitations in former years. The throat is 
the seat of soreness and suffering : the disease thence, in some, 
creeping down into the bronchial tubes and alighting upon the 
thoracic membranes; while in others it vents its violence chiefly in 
the head, either through continuous profuse discharges fom the 
nose, or a critical outburst of an abscess in the throat. Now and 
then strangles come on, and, in some instances, a tedious and 
troublesome nasal gleet remains; cough being the usual attendant 
all through the complaint. 
We would offer a word in regard to treatment, and that must 
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