ON THE PRESENT STATE OF VETERINARY AFFAIRS. 395 
I send you this account, not as containing any thing absolutely 
new, but to shew that a horse may exhibit strong symptoms of 
strangulation and rupture, and recover. 
Another circumstance makes a strong impression on my mind. 
It has been remarked that opium has no direct influence upon 
the nervous system of the horse. I think, from the foregoing 
statement, that when given in large doses it is a most valuable 
narcotic and sedative, and am proud to add my testimony to that 
of others who have spoken of its value. I have seen the same 
effect produced upon cattle several times. 
[We regard this as a very interesting and valuable case, and 
thank Mr. Younghusband for it.] 
REMARKS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF VETERI- 
NARY AFFAIRS. 
By Mr. E. C. Bull, Huntingdon. 
Sirs, — It appears from former numbers of your Journal, and 
especially from that of the present month, that a certain party of 
veterinary surgeons have been taking very active and strenuous 
measures to secure certain advantages to themselves, which I 
deem to be both unjust in their design, and truly ridiculous in 
their character. I now refer to the Memorial which they, some 
months since, presented to the Governors of the Veterinary Col- 
lege, and to the petition to her Gracious Majesty, with the ad- 
dress to the Marquis of Normanby, which they, or rather their 
Committee, subsequently prepared and transmitted, in order to 
insure those advantages. Their seeking to remove certain im- 
perfections in the mere local regulations of the College, or to obtain 
the addition of a limited number of veterinary surgeons in the 
committee appointed to examine the qualifications of the gra- 
duates before they obtained their diploma from that institution, 
were objects to which no rational objections could, I apprehend, 
be made ; but to farther aim, in the projection and execution of 
their plans, at the obtainment of an act of parliament to prohi- 
bit the appellation of “ Veterinary Surgeon,” and the practice 
also to any person in the profession who has not received a 
ticket either from the Edinburgh or the St. Pancras School, is 
certainly the most unblushing and disgusting attempt to violate 
the rights and liberties of a very numerous and respectable por- 
tion of society that has ever before been known in the history of 
any civilized community. “ Fair play is a jewel,” as the old adage 
