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and I know it is the practice with every veterinary surgeon in 
this neighbourhood, and I will endeavour to justify the measure. 
Every one who employs a professional man ought to know 
that he must pay for skill. Now, as no man could be supposed 
to put that down as an item in his account, he must charge it 
in some other form ; and l consider attendances the least objec- 
tionable mode of doing so. Under this system, it is not neces- 
sary to give an undue quantity of medicine, and the employer 
has a guarantee that this will not be the case; and, on the 
other hand, this circumstance has a marvellous effect in recon- 
ciling them to the number of visits paid. „ 
There is a degree of unreasonableness about some men that 
would give a professional man no respite or rest if they got all 
our labour at the same amount ; and there is no fairness in it. 
It matters not in the least to these characters what our own opi- 
nion may be as to the necessity for visiting our patients under 
some circumstances : nothing less than our whole time would 
satisfy them ; and I sincerely recommend all young vets, to 
commence practice on this principle, and they will find it a great 
mean of allaying irritability in their employer. 
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By J. Grellier, Esq. MM.C.S. 
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PURGATIVES. 
Another mode of the operation of medicine on the horse is 
by purgatives, the principal ingredients lor which are aloes and 
calomel. The operation of purgatives in the horse, I imagine, 
commences in the intestines, as the stomach is little liable to 
be affected. When arrived in the duodenum, it stimulates the 
mouth of the bile duct, increases the discharge, and removes any 
mucous accumulation that may obstruct the orifice. The in- 
numerable small mouths of the lacteals are also stimulated, by 
which obstructions are frequently removed, which operation may 
be expected to have taken place in those cases in which the 
animal is previously low and reduced, but regains his condition 
after the use of physic.' In this country the animal is very 
subject to have these vessels obstructed by sand and small gravel 
