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been gleaned from the pages of this journal ; but in the great ma- 
jority of instances, those who are capable of reading such a work 
as The Veterinarian, are the first to call in the educated 
man. So convinced am I of this fact, that nothing is more gra- 
tifying to me than to hear a gentleman mention any scientific 
work, and very often I offer volumes from my own shelves for 
their perusal. These are the men that value the scientific prac- 
titioner, and it is by those only that a work like The Veteri- 
narian can be understood: it, however, might be well to be 
more guarded in the description of treatment, and merely give 
the class of medicines used, except in extraordinary cases, or on 
trial of any new medicine, when the quantity prescribed might be 
specified. 
I fear that the union of “the Association” with the Veteri- 
narian was of no advantage to the old work, I know of several 
who complain, and justly so, that in 1837 the price of the work 
was but eighteen pence, and it contained a great deal more useful 
and practical knowledge than it does at present. Let the works 
be separate. There will be no occasion for ill-will, and veterinary 
knowledge will progress. 
ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF ANTIMONIALS 
TO CATTLE. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian” 
Conceiving that the well-intended observations of a medical 
gentleman on the use of the pulvis antimonialis (now named 
p. antimonii compositus, in the London Pharmacopoeia) with 
your strictures on the administration of antimonials to cattle, in 
a late number of your Journal, are calculated to prejudice the 
inexperienced against their employment, I beg to state, that, 
having used them during a practice of nearly twenty years, I still 
exhibit them with the greatest confidence in inflammatory dis- 
eases of the respiratory organs, whether confined to the mucous 
or serous membranes, or cellular tissue ; in cerebral affections, 
as phrenitis and encephalitis parturiens ; in nephritis., and in 
almost all cases of sthenic fever and inflammation — topical or 
general, also in cattle, provided the chylopoietic viscera are in a 
normal condition. Even to this proviso there is an exception, 
where, a priori , we should least expect it, that is, in dysentery, in 
which the antim. pot. tart, seems to be more efficacious than 
hydr. chlor., or acid, hydrocyanic. 
Were I to select a disease in cattle over which its therapeutic 
