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Garland, and the continuation of Mr. Cartwright’s Essay on Rupture of the 
Diaphragm. 
In August there was a still greater improvement. Mr. C. Percivall com- 
municated three short papers, and we had one from Dr. Green, another from 
Mr. Saunders, and a third from Mr. S. Browne. 
In September we had again our friend Cartwright on Disease of the Peri- 
cardium in Cattle, and the first notice from Mr. Newport on that important 
improvement in veterinary surgery, the Use of a Solution of the Sulphate of 
Zinc in Fistulous Wounds. 
October brought Professor Dick into the field. It was a new and interesting 
subject — “ Amputation in Compound Fractures of the Extremities in Cattle.” 
He related three successful cases. I have the pleasure to tell him that I 
could now add three times three to them. To him belongs the satisfaction 
and the honour of having introduced this humane practice. We had like- 
wise a contribution from Mr. Bean, and Mr. Moulden. 
Certain veterinary surgeons had formed themselves into a Society — the 
Veterinary Medical Society — for the Discussion of Veterinary Subjects. Mr. 
W. Percivall had contributed the first Essay on Fistulous Parotid Duct. It 
had been read and debated, and ordered to be inserted in the November num- 
ber of The Veterinarian. From this moment the triumph of our Periodi- 
cal was assured, and its readers and their contributions to it rapidly increased. 
Another paper from our indefatigable friend Cartwright appeared in this 
number. 
In the number for December, appeared an Essay by Mr. W. Goodwin, on the 
Different Methods of Castration, and which had been read and discussed in 
the Society. This was a favourite subject with him, and he did full justice 
to it. There was also a communication from Mr. Leaver. 
And so ended the first year of The Veterinarian ; during the whole of 
which we had received contributions from only eleven acknowledged corre- 
spondents, and had lost between sixty and seventy pounds. Still we were not 
discouraged, for the identification of The Veterinarian with the Veterinary 
Medical Society would ensure it a far greater supply than it had hitherto pos- 
sessed of interesting and valuable information. One of the Editors likewise 
had not only fitted up a theatre, in which the Society held its meetings, but 
in which he commenced a course of lectures on the Diseases of Cattle and 
Sheep. This also would afford matter for many an interesting communica- 
tion. 
In the course of the second volume many exceedingly interesting papers 
originating from the Society were introduced, and I will confine myself to a 
rapid enumeration of them. “ On Inflammation of the Feet of Horses,” by 
Mr. John Percivall. His account of the cause and symptoms of Lamiuitis 
was interesting, but it was in the consideration of the treatment, to which 
he brought the experience of a long life in the depot at Woolwich, that he 
triumphed. This paper has always been valued. 
The next month gave the “ Exposition of the Navicular Disease,” by Mr. 
James Turner. He was here at home. Although there had previously existed 
some more or less indistinct notions of disease of the navicular bone, to Mr. 
Turner belonged the honour of being the first who brought it fairly under the 
notice of the profession. Much interest will be felt in this debate, when it is 
recollected that it formed the basis and contained the substance of Mr. 
Turner’s subsequent publication on the Navicular Disease. 
The paper on “ Pleurisy,” by Mr. Field, is an invaluable one. It gave a new 
complexion to the opinions of veterinary surgeons on this disease. It esta- 
blished, what had previously been denied, the existence of Pleurisy as a sepa- 
rate disease, and it clearly described its symptoms and its mode of treat- 
