ON PUERPERAL FEVER IN CATTLE. 
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mation in the uterus? Did none of the stomachs (especially the 
abomasum) present any appearance of disease? Were the small 
intestines not sufferers?” And adds, “were l to receive an answer 
in the negative to these queries, I confess frankly I should lose 
the vantage ground which I occupy at present.” Indeed, Mr. W. ! 
your vanity would be highly amusing if it affected no one but 
yourself; but who told you that you do occupy any vantage 
ground ? I guess you have found it out yourself; but, in common 
justice, sir, look over by-gone papers in the Th e Veterinarian, 
and honestly say if you have told us any thing on this disease 
which you will not find in substance already there: and you will 
also find, sir, that you occupy the very ground which L have va- 
cated ; and, let me add, you are welcome to it. 
But, gentlemen, whilst I give Mr. W. credit for his liberality 
with regard to Mr. Stewart, I feel sorry to be obliged to com- 
plain of his want of credence with regard to myself. I have 
presented him (in the very paper he is criticising) with a case, in 
which I proved that the disease did not originate in inflammation 
of the parts which he alludes to; and I must say, gentlemen, that 
I repel with honest indignation the insinuations conveyed in these 
remarks, coupled with others interspersed in his paper. By what 
right does he impugn the credibility of my testimony? And why 
does he insult me, by requiring that evidence from Mr. Stewart, 
which I have already furnished him with, without even adverting 
to a case in point of mine, before his eyes at the very moment ? 
Once for all, let me inform Mr. W., that there are others who 
can relate cases quite as faithfully as himself. 
I must now proceed to where he quarrels with my opinion as to 
the intimate connexion subsisting between the nerves, spinal mar- 
row, and brain. He assures us that this does not exist, but has 
not thought proper to substantiate such an assertion by any ade- 
quate proofs. Mr. Youatt, Mr. Youatt, are you not ashamed of 
yourself, to mislead folk, as you have attempted to do, in your 
Lectures published in The Veterinarian ? If it had not been 
for this antidote, most judiciously .administered by Mr. W., 
many might have been led, by your baneful example, to suppose 
that some nerves do actually arise from the brain, and that these 
organs are really most intimately connected. 
I profess to be willing to listen to the voice of reason on any 
subject; but I have been so long in the habit of considering 
that an intimate connexion does exist between these parts, that 
it will require something much stronger than the ipse dixit of 
Mr. W. to convince me to the contrary. 
But Mr. W. seems to think, that destruction of a great part 
of the brain will not materially interfere with the nervous system; 
