CONSIGNMENT OF SICK CATTLE TO THE BUTCHER. 651 
sider them useless. I have never found obstruction in any post- 
mortem examination ; for, unlike the horse (in whose bowels 
obstructions of different kinds often occur, and may sometimes 
be removed both by the hand and by clyster), the obstructions in 
cattle always take place in the third stomach, very far beyond 
the place where the clyster can ever reach it. If these remarks 
are considered of any use, you may give them, for want at any 
time of better matter, some spare corner in The Veterinarian. 
I was led to the above remarks by being very much annoyed, 
and, I have no doubt many other practitioners have been placed in 
similar circumstances, by people selling cows when taken ill, and 
after a few days’ treatment, even in cases where we have almost 
certain hopes of recovery. Edinburgh is quite at hand where a 
market can be found for half-cured, incurable, dying, or dead 
animals. How they manage to elude detection I cannot tell ; but 
it is well known that a set of men are to be found carrying on 
such a practice, who will buy almost any thing in the shape of 
flesh ; and some people having cows taken ill, and knowing that 
if they do not get better in two or three days they will probably 
be lost, are not often long in seeking other assistance, especially 
as no responsibility comes on them, even if it is detected by the 
authorities. 
I do not mean to blame the paragraph in question for that. 
Perhaps not one person in a hundred ever saw or heard of the 
practice. It is entirely on the principle to take something rather 
than lose all. 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1842. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
In our Journal of the last month, we reviewed with much plea- 
sure, not only the increase of valuable documents in our periodical, 
but the evident, although somewhat slow, progress of our art 
generally. We should next, had our space permitted, have 
looked at the proceedings of our brethren on the other side of the 
channel, and we should have found the records of the Clinical 
School at Alfort fearlessly and honourably laid before the profes- 
sion. We noticed one circumstance most essentially connected 
with the improvement of the pupils. As each patient was brought 
