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ON SUPPOSED UNPROFESSIONAL INTERFERENCE. 
By Samuel Browne, Esq., Melton Mowbray. 
“ Reason’s comparing balance rules the whole.” 
My dear Sir, — I AM fully aware that the object of your Journal 
is not to form a medium through which we may gratify motives of 
private pique or personal resentment; and if it was not for cherish- 
ing the hope that a more courteous professional feeling will be 
established among us, I should certainly not occupy your space in 
order to complain of an unceremonious interference on the part of 
Mr. Evans, of Grantham. 
I freely admit the truth of the axiom, that " two heads are wiser 
than one;” but, at the same time, I contend that, if our employers 
wish to avail themselves of the skill of two veterinarians, those 
persons ought to be brought into contact with each other. 
The patient was an aged cart-mare, and the case that of a punc- 
tured wound through the integument and panniculus carnosus co- 
vering the ribs. I was requested to attend to her as soon as possible 
after she had received the injury: but, in consequence of ascer- 
taining that the wound was a slight one, and being much engaged, 
I sent a bottle of digestive liniment to dress the wound, and, know- 
ing that Mr. Musson’s men were aware that it should be well fo- 
mented, I did not send any particular directions respecting that 
part of the treatment. 
In the morning of the third day after the accident, I was in- 
formed that the mare was off her feed, and that her side was very 
much swollen. I attended, and found her in good condition; the 
wound possessed considerable vitality; but there was too much 
inflammatory action in the surrounding parts for the suppurative 
process to commence. I dressed the wound with digestive lini- 
ment, abstracted a small quantity of blood, and gave her some 
diuretic medicine, combined with a small portion of opium, and 
directed that the tumefaction should be fomented with thick woollen 
cloths, wrung out of warm water, until matter was formed in the 
wound ; or, if that should not take place, it was to be continued 
till I saw her again, which would be on the second day from that 
time. 
Mr. Musson resides at Coltersworth, but he also occupies a farm 
at Hose, at which place the mare was; and he having been in- 
formed at Croxton races, that I considered the mare in a dangerous 
state, took Mr. Evans from thence to see her. There was nothing 
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