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year ; thus shewing that it has been his constant custom, from first 
to last, to note down whatever worthy of record might meet him in 
his professional career. Pursuing such a habit as this, any prac- 
titioner, in the course of a few years, will really become surprised 
himself to find what leaves he has occupied of his “ Sick Record,” 
and what a number of valuable facts he has amassed. Would but 
half of our professional brethren engaged in practice act as Mr. 
Haycock has done, what strides we should be found making in 
the progress of veterinary medicine and surgery, compared with 
the creeping advancement we really are accomplishing ! 
To severally take the subjects but now enumerated into consi- 
deration, and individually examine their merits and demerits, would, 
in an article like this, be quite out of the question. On some future 
day we may do so. Meanwhile, we may fearlessly assert that, 
taking the “ Contributions” for what they are intrinsically worth 
to the actual practitioner of veterinary medicine, and for what they 
promise to be worth to the man who shall one day set about the 
arduous task of compiling a system of veterinary nosology, we 
entertain ourselves, and hear from others, but one opinion concern- 
ing them ; and that is, that they ar e practical and excellent , and do 
the greatest credit to their author. The cases by which every Con- 
tribution is commenced, and of which some of them mainly consist, 
are detailed with that conscientious faithfulness, that it is within 
the power of their reader to judge for himself whether the name pre- 
fixed to them be appropriate, or the “ remarks,” through inferences 
and deductions, founded upon them be legitimate, and such as the 
details warrant. No circumstance is kept out of view, nothing has 
occurred but what appears mentioned ; and if either the “ name” or 
the “ remarks” be inappropriate or unwarrantable, Mr. Haycock 
holds himself impeachable at the tribunal of public judgment. 
For our own part, we can only regret that we are to hear no more 
of such a contributor; at all events, for the present. Let us foster 
the hope that others, stimulated by the laudable example Mr. 
Haycock has set them, may set about sending us whatever they 
may have “ standing upon their books” that will admit of being 
moulded into the shape of fresh “ Contributions to the Pathology 
and Practice of Veterinary Medicine.” 
One word more : — Mr. Haycock has paid merited encomium to 
