STRANGULATION OF THE INTESTINES. 
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rising four years old, the age at which we can take them. 
The villains will swear that the teeth have fallen out of them- 
selves, when it is perfectl} 7 clear that the three-year-old per- 
manent teeth have only just been cut. 
I fear, however, that I am making my letter much too long ; 
but before closing it, I must tell you that I, in common with 
many others, was rejoiced by seeing a contradiction in your 
last number of the statement about Mr. Johnston's death. 
He is an old friend of mine, and I shall be glad to see him 
out here again. We have lost six of our number since May 
last — Phillips and Dawson murdered at Meerut — Chal win at 
Cawnpore — Nelson at Ferozepore — Hely killed at Lucknow 
— and Jeffery, who died at Umballah : casualties enough for 
one year. 
One question, and I have done. Do you not think we 
ought to have a Principal Veterinary Surgeon in our Army, 
as they have in Her Majesty’s? All communications, com- 
plaints, &c., whether of a professional nature or not, have to 
go through the Superintending Surgeon (!) of the Division as 
things are now. 
Yours very truly, 
A Bengal Artillery V.S, 
ON STPtAN GULATION OF THE INTESTINES OF 
THE OX — “GUT-TIE.” 
By W. H. Crowhurst, M.R.C.V.S., Peasmarsh. 
I was requested on the 15th of last month to attend a 
two-year-old steer, the property of W. W. Daw’s, Esq., of 
Ewhurst, which was taken ill the day previously, but it 
being late when the illness was observed, and my residence 
nine miles distant, some aperient medicine was ad- 
ministered, and orders given to send for me the next 
morning. 
When I arrived, the steer w r as lying down in a shed, but 
soon got up and w ? alked across the yard. His back w r as 
arched, and the abdomen tucked up. 
He was somewhat excited at first, but soon began to tremble, 
and to step in a backward direction by putting one hind leg 
directly behind the other. Occasionally he turned his head 
towards his side, and would kick at his belly, and now and then 
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