196 REMARKS ON A CASE OF ENTERITIS IN A MARE. 
great — but 1 cannot help it. You have been duped and led away 
by a man whose object, even at the expense of your mare’s life, 
was to extract money from you. He has attained his ends : but 
the result is, that, owing to his craft and your folly, you have lost 
your mare. Had you left het under my care, I am still convinced, 
that, notwithstanding the transfer of inflammation from her 
bowels to her feet, she would ultimately have been restored. But 
to conclude the matter, let me tell you, that if you are persuaded 
that I have been ignorant, and that you have suffered by my 
ignorance, all you have to do is to prove it. You have the re- 
medy in your own hands.” 
In a few days after this I met a son of Mr. R., who com- 
municated to me information to the following effect : — “ On 
Monday night, Hewit called, and requested my father to let him 
look at his mare. He objected however to do so, and said, 
that Mr. Dawber had been to see her that day, and had said 
that appearances led him shortly to expect a change for the better 
But he afterwards added, “You can do no harm by looking at her,” 
and took him to see her. As soon as Hewit saw her, he ex- 
claimed, “ Her pain is all in her chest, and do, for goodness sake, 
take off her shoes, and put her feet in bran poultices to draw down 
the inflammation. Mr. Dawber is doing very wrong by giving her 
clysters ; they force the dung back, and thus her bowels will 
never be opened. I could purge her in ten hours, and cure her for 
you directly.” “ My father,” said this young man, “ believed 
what he said ; placed the mare under his care, and sent you word 
that you need not come any more to see her.” The shoes were 
then taken off, and her feet put into bran poultices ; a rowel was 
inserted in the breast, and a draught was given by Hewit. 
“ On the following morning, the draught Hewit had given 
began to purge the mare ; after which she appeared to get much 
better, and walked comfortably about the place, commenced feed- 
ing, &c., and we all thought what a good cure Hewit had made : 
but, on the day after this, she became very lame, could not move, 
or scarcely stand : at last she fell down, and, I believe, w'as un- 
able to rise. Hewit then said there was no chance of curing 
her, as the inflammation had been in her feet too long, and that 
you were very much to blame. Consequently my father had her 
destroyed.” 
In having entered thus fully into the foregoing details I am chiefly 
actuated by a desire to add my humble testimony to the fact, 
that, under the existing loose and insufficiently restrictive system 
of veterinary practice, the regular and qualified practitioner may 
in the course of his labours be subjected to many grievous an- 
noyances, and depreciated in the estimation of his employers by 
the treacherous interference of unprincipled empirics — how, in the 
