INFLUENZA IN THE HOUSE, &c. 795 
about. The pulse 60, but not so strong, and the action of the 
heart much lower. 
27th . — Continuing to improve. Continue medicine. 
30^. — Convalescent. 
With your permission, I will send you a case or two of the 
poisoning of cattle by meadow saffron. 
e shall very thankfully avail ourselves of Mr. Hughes’s kind 
offer.— Y.] 
ON CHARGING FOR MEDICINE AND ATTENDANCE. 
By a Correspondent . 
I believe that there was a case tried some time since, a vete- 
rinary surgeon having sent in a bill for medicines, and, at the 
same time, making a demand for personal attendance. A verdict, 
it is said, was given in favour of the veterinary surgeon. Should 
you be in possession of a record of this, I should feel much obliged 
by your furnishing me with it, for I have now a bill of mine dis- 
puted, in consequence of having charged for attendance and medi- 
cines, and the attendances being very numerous. 
[We should be thankful for information on this matter. The 
practice is different in different districts, and among different 
persons. Will some of our old stagers tell us which is, gene- 
rally speaking, the most equitable plan of proceeding, as it 
regards the veterinary surgeon and his employer? — Y.] 
ON INFLUENZA IN THE HORSE, AND EXCLUSIVE- 
NESS IN THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE. 
By Mr. Thomas Darby, of Louth . 
If you think the following worth a place in your valuable 
Journal, it is at your service. We have in this neighbourhood 
had, for the last three months, a great deal of influenza, full 
as much, I think, as in the year 1836 ; but the precursory 
symptoms, generally, are very different, inasmuch as in this 
spring a great many of them are taken with an affection of the 
spinal column, reeling and staggering as though the spine was 
actually injured, with great swelling of the legs, and extreme 
prostration of strength. I have had about three hundred cases, 
and have only lost one, and that from effusion in the chest. 
My treatment has consisted in sedatives when there was much 
swelling of the extremities, diuretics and setons, with embroca- 
