THE YOUATT TESTIMONIAL. 
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not confined his communications and his extracts to the diseases of that 
animal on which alone the Veterinary College had deigned to bestow its 
attention. The very first number contained an extract from the French on 
Hydatids in the Brain and Spinal Marrow of Sheep, and a communication on 
the Artificial Increase of Milk in Cows. The second number contained 
some valuable remarks on the Diseases of the Hoofs in Sheep, and on Hoven 
in Cattle and Sheep. The new editor therefore, who had been bred in the 
school of general medicine, and taught to regard every domesticated animal 
as an occasional patient, had little more to do than to follow out, somewhat 
more extensively, the right and liberal system on which his compeer had 
started. Perhaps the diseases of cattle and sheep were made somewhat more 
prominent objects than they otherwise would have been, and the foundation 
was laid for that noble and vast improvement in the pathology of the inferior 
animals which the last twelve years have witnessed. 
To return from this long digression. March arrived, and Mr. Charles 
Percivall gave us a paper on that strangely misunderstood disease, that sup- 
posed product of rheumatism or cramp, Dislocation of the Patella, and to 
this he added the removal of another delusion, the existence of filariae in the 
eye of the horse, as connected with Kumree. These were papers of sterling 
value, and we prized them : but beside two short anonymous contributions, 
they were all that we had. 
The Journal for April appeared without a single communication. Mr. 
Percivall was disgusted at the strange and disgraceful apathy of his veteri- 
nary brethren, and he retired from the concern. He urged me to do the 
same. He said, and very properly, that there was no reason that we should 
sacrifice our time and our money for a profession that seemed utterly reck- 
less about us : but I, perhaps, had a little too much of the perverse dogged- 
ness of some foolish people about me, and I told him that I would try 
it out. 
May came, and there was not a contribution. The continuance of my 
friend’s “ Anatomy of the Horse,” and which he had promised not to with- 
draw, was the only assistance which I had in the composition or compilation 
of that number. And now what did Mr. Percivall do ? He comes to me, 
and he says, “ And so you will be thus absurdly obstinate?” “ Yes ! I will; 
and I can only say in -the language of the Kentuckian, ‘ If you think to turn 
me, you may as well row up the Falls of Niagara in a fish-kettle, with a crow- 
bar for an oar.’ ” “ You are a strange fellow,” said he : “ and now I will tell 
you what I will do. You united yourself to The Veterinarian when it 
was almost in as bad a state as it is now, and I won’t desert you. We will 
fight it out until your proud temper is overcome.” 
You, Gentlemen, have placed the presentation of this Testimonial on the 
ground of certain literary labours. You must pardon, then, a little old man’s 
gossip while I tell you what these literary labours really were, and while I do 
justice to one of the most honourable and good-feeling men in our profession. 
In the month of June first appeared a name which has, from that hour to 
the present, been connected with the prosperity, but then with the very ex- 
istence, of The Veterinarian. Mr. Cartwright favoured us with a paper 
on Rupture of the Diaphragm, and this was the only communication which in 
three months we had. I had happened to be speaking to one of the great 
men at the College respecting The Veterinarian, and he told me that we 
were fighting a hopeless battle, for it would and must perish for lack of food. 
To what extent “the wish was father to that thought” I pretend not to say; 
but certainly the nourishment administered by Mr. Cartwright did help to 
keep body and soul together in our poor Journal until better days arrived. 
In July we were evidently mending. We had two short papers from Mr. 
