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bristles clothing their body serve to augment the secretion of the 
pus through irritation of the skin ; no more than there is doubt 
that the animal makes use of them, like the hypoderma of the ox, 
for the execution of the motions required for his escape from his 
foul abode. Once at liberty, he sets out in search of shelter, 
either in the earth or the dung, and therein, after having remained 
for ten or eleven months underneath the horse’s skin, it changes 
into fly. 
The larva that has been engaging our notice is comparatively 
rare in the south, but frequently found in the northern parts of 
France : it is likewise common in Belgium and Holland, along the 
entire shore of the Baltic and the North Sea. 
Save the local phenomena already detailed, the cuticular larva of 
the horse occasions, according to M. Loiset, no appreciable morbid 
derangement. Nevertheless, about the period of its full growth it 
appears to occasion some troublesome itchings, which give way to 
lotions of cold water, at times slightly vinegared, or else to some 
of the means employed for the destruction of the larvae of the hy- 
poderma bovis. 
How long does the state of fly continue 1 What are the habits 
of the insect after it has arrived at its final transformation 1 These 
two questions, as yet, wait for answers ; but it is to be hoped they 
will not wait much longer. We have for guarantee of this the re- 
nowned zeal of MM. the Professors of our National Veterinary 
School, touching all that concerns the interest of science, of which 
those gentlemen are the worthy representatives. 
Journal des Vtierinaires du Midi. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1850. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
We are not taken aback at “a Sporting Surgeon” — whose 
letter will be found in our pages for this month — having had 
his attention attracted by the status in society occupied by veteri- 
nary surgeons in the country in general, as compared with the re- 
lative position they, from presumed professional qualification, appear 
to have a right to look up to. Veterinary science, efficiently 
