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six minutes, when an accidental circumstance caused her to fall 
suddenly and with some violence, and she evinced a great deal of 
pain ; but, to our astonishment, we found on raising her, that, 
although very lame, she had to a material degree recovered the 
use of her leg. In ten days the lameness had nearly or quite dis- 
appeared. I have ridden her since, and was never better carried. 
“ I have sent you this case, in order to elicit your opinion, or 
that of some of your correspondents, on this singular subject.” 
[It was as plain as plain could be, “ a dislocation of the patella 
and fortunate ought our correspondent to think himself, that, 
after all his blunders, he got so well out of the scrape as he did. 
Let him turn to any of the numbers of The VETERINARIAN 
which treat of this lameness, and he will find that, in future, he 
may cure it, at almost any time, in five minutes. — Y.] 
After the whole of our present number was not only in the hands 
of the printer, but in type , comes a letter from “a Highland 
Farmer,” dated “ Oban, January 12th, 1839,” with a request that 
it shall be immediately inserted. We must, indeed, entreat our 
correspondents to be more punctual. There is not a month in 
which some foolish neglect of this kind does not occur. 
This gentleman asks whether “ Students who have obtained 
diplomas at the Scottish Veterinary College, are eligible for the ap- 
pointment of veterinary surgeons in her Majesty’s army and in the 
army of the Honourable East India Company’s Service ? When 
such an arrangement took place, and on what authority he is to 
depend for the truth of it; to what public record or office he 
can refer for information ; and whether any other examination is to 
be undergone ?” 
We have understood that the students of both schools will stand 
on an equal footing, and that the only difference will be priority 
on the list. Professor Dick, will, probably, set this matter right. 
