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upon her legs ; her joints having the appearance of every instant 
giving way under her ; evincing great prostration of strength; 
respiration agitated; nostrils dilated ; pituitary and conjunctival 
membranes as red as scarlet, and also the buccal membrane and 
covering of the tongue ; and, from the red aspect of a bare place 
upon the knee affected, it is imagined that the cutis vera may be in 
the same highly injected condition. The pulse, though small and 
weak, could be felt, but hardly distinctly enough to be reckoned. 
Purgation had commenced afresh, and was going on freely, with 
the discharge of much Jiatus. With a countenance full of anxiety, 
she expressed pain in the abdomen by looking back frequently at 
her flanks. She soon lay down, and stretched herself out at full 
length, occasionally lifting up her head, and looking towards her 
abdomen, and groaning. She freely drank of water-gruel made 
warm : the giving her which, and keeping her box cool and well- 
ventilated, is all that was done to her. She survived but three 
hours and a half after I was called to see her. She died quite 
suddenly, and without any struggle. 
Autopsy .—-No morbid appearance discoverable. The mucous 
membranes of the stomach and intestines, as well as the perito- 
neum and all the viscera, in a state of health. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1842. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
ILLEGAL PRACTITIONERS. 
[We have much pleasure in inserting the following remarks of 
the Editor of The Medical Gazette. With some slight alter- 
ation they apply to the veterinary practitioner, and include 
almost all that we could wish.] 
Of all the questions of medical reform which have of late 
engaged the attention of the profession, there is, perhaps, none 
more important, or involving greater difficulty, than that which 
relates to the protection of the public and the practitioner against 
the intrusion of unlicensed pretenders to a knowledge of medi- 
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