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MR. FRYKR AND MR. YOU ATT. 
tain evils which now materially interfere with their respecta- 
bility and their benefit, and the enjoyment of equal rights and 
privileges. 
The English Committee is still hard at work. What progress 
they have made, or how far certain political circumstances 
may, for a little while, delay the accomplishment of their noble 
labours, it is not for us now to say. The good wishes of us all 
attend them. 
A part, and an unpleasant part, of the task of the Editor yet 
remains, and from which, as it concerns the honour of the Asso- 
ciation and his own character, he must not shrink. 
Mr. Fryer, in an Essay on Pneumonia inCattle, delivered before 
the Association on the 9th of February, after giving a sketch of 
what he conceived to be the symptoms of the disease in those ani- 
mals, proceeds to warn the young practitioner against placing too 
much reliance on the statements of “book-makers” concerning the 
“deathy coldness of the legs, &c.” in cases of inflammation of the 
lungs. “ Such things/’ says he, “ sound highly in exaggerated 
descriptions, and serve well to round off a flaming period or sen- 
tence ; but they are by no means so common in the yards of our 
employers as in the books of our authors : not that I mean to 
deny altogether the existence of this as a symptom of inflamed 
lungs ; but I do assert, that it is by no means an invariable con- 
comitant of the complaint in any of our patients.” In another 
place he — a young man of the mature age of about twenty — says, 
“I am satisfied — practical experience enables me to speak thus 
firmly — that all that has been written by cattle pathologists on 
this subject is altogether conjectural, or arises from a fondness 
of theorizing.” 
The passage quoted by Mr. Fryer is taken from the work on 
Cattle, by the Editor, and consequently he was the person 
against whom this fearful diatribe was aimed ; one who was en- 
gaged in the diligent study and practice of his profession more 
than a dozen years before his opponent was born — one whose 
zeal in the pursuit of veterinary science no one has dared to 
deny — one whom good feeling — so far as the Association is con- 
cerned — should protect from insult in his own house, and he is in 
