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in the stomach of a mare caused inverted action of that organ 
and regurgitation into the oesophagus ; attempts at, but not 
actual, vomition. For the case we return thanks to our corre- 
spondent Mr. J. D. Harrison. On melanotic disease, much — all, 
almost — remains to be done. Mr. Dick has been mainly instru- 
mental in calling our attention to the subject : it was likewise a 
favourite study of one whose memory we all revere — the late 
Mr. John Field. Within the annals we are revising will be 
found an interesting sketch on the same subject by Mr. Poett. 
Such is a faint outline of the contents of our Journal for the 
first six months of the present year. In the course of the whole 
of the year our contributors have nearly reached one hundred 
separate individuals, a number of which in no previous year had 
we been able to boast. With proud and grateful feelings we re- 
gard this list. We compare the different state of the veterinary 
art in 1828 and 1842, and we ask, who has effected this improve- 
ment? The contributors to The Veterinarian. That book 
is a boon of intellectual and professional worth. Our friends 
have made it so. We have had but little more than to arrange 
a series of interesting and invaluable communications. The pre- 
sent day, and future ages, wili testify the glorious progress that 
has been effected ; and to one and all of our correspondents we 
offer our warmest thanks. 
There is one topic which has purposely been left unnoticed, 
but which, when the season arrives, shall, nevertheless, receive 
at our hands every consideration and support in our power to 
bestow upon it;— we mean, The Charter. In the interval we 
strongly urge those gentlemen who have so kindly taken upon 
themselves the labours of the task, not to relax in their efforts; 
but, when the fitting time shall arrive, to renew their petition, 
and to do so in a body , and not as one party asking for that of 
which another disapproves. They must not forget the ancient 
adage, vis unita fortior. 
