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establish a code by which we may approach to something 
like accordance in our examinations, and the public will then 
give us credit for superior judgment upon cases of un- 
soundness. But while one veterinary surgeon says a horse 
is lame in his fore feet ; and a second, — I see nothing amiss 
with his feet, but he is unsound in his hock, — and this in the 
course of a day or two, how can it be expected that the 
public will listen to our dissertations about science ? It 
would be extraordinary if it did. 
Let us proceed at once to put an end to such depre- 
ciations of our worth and integrity, as members of a 
professional body, by subscribing our votes to a final under- 
standing upon all questions touching the soundness of 
horses, that we may feel a pleasure when a horse is brought 
to be examined, rather than a dread that we shall impugn 
the opinion of another practitioner who may have pre- 
ceded us, but of which we are not informed, and be disbe- 
lieved and doubted by the person to whom the horse belongs 
into the bargain. We have it in our power upon the prin- 
ciple I have suggested ; and any expense attending it must, 
of course, be subscribed. But we must absolutely confine 
our votes or answers to the questions propounded to a yes , or 
no. We do not want long arguments with every answer, 
since there would be no end to these. Every horse is sound, or 
he is unsound, and every affection or alteration of structure 
constitutes unsoundness or it does not. We cannot argue 
upon the intermediate conditions. There is no science in 
saying we must wait for impairment of function to enable us 
to pronounce on the existence of unsoundness, this is declared 
by its presence. It requires science to show the existence of 
disease, and our experience to tell its consequences; therefore, 
we must answer the questions proposed to us according to 
our experience in every instance. 
I am, yours, &c. 
HEMIPLEGIA; DISEASE OF THE HEART AND 
INTESTINES, AND SOME OTHER AFFECTIONS 
INCIDENTAL TO HORSES IN INDIA. 
By F. G. Shaw, M.R.C.Y.S., 1st Madras Light Cavalry. 
A six-year-old bay Arab remount, w T as reported at evening 
stable parade by the farrier-major to be lame of the near fore 
and both hind limbs, which on my examination I found to 
be the case, and in an aggravated form. 
