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CASE OF OBSTRUCTION IN THE COLON. 
sorted, and then I should be liable to damages; but of this 1 
have heard nothing. 
Mr. Fryer has behaved very unhandsomely to me on former oc¬ 
casions, and particularly when called in to the same cases with me; 
not only hinting, but broadly asserting to the owners, that my 
treatment had been wrong, and without condescending to give me 
the least intimation of the matter, if I had been wrong, I should 
have been thankful to have been set right; but, without a word 
to me, it was highly unjustifiable conduct for him to malign me, 
and destroy my professional reputation with my employers. 
I know your objection to personal controversy ; but I think 
you will give a place in your excellent and impartial Journal to 
this statement of simple facts. 
A CASE OF OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION, FROM 
OBSTRUCTION IN THE COLON. 
By Mr. G. Cl eland, Roseivell, N. B . 
The following case was sent to us by Mr. Jackson, of Pennycuick, 
N. B. He complains that he is “ much mortified by the unge¬ 
nerous attacks made upon the profession of furrier by veterinary 
practitioners, who have an interest in their downfall ; 77 and he has 
transmitted this statement as a proof of what a “ ferrier” can do : 
he also says “ that the practical c ferrier' will, in most cases, be 
found superior to those white-fingered gentlemen who have only 
got a theoretic knowledge of the profession in the class-room, 
without that practical experience which alone can make it 
valuable. 7 ' 
We acknowledge that the treatment of this case reflects much 
credit on Mr. Cleland, and therefore we insert it with great 
pleasure, and also because it is an unusual, and therefore a 
valuable case; but we must deny these “ ungenerous at¬ 
tacks 75 to which Mr. Jackson alludes, on that useful class of men 
the “ferrier s ”—we are not conscious of them; and we demur also 
to the fairness of the comparison which Mr. Jackson draws between 
them and the whitefingered gentlemen. Previous “ theoretic 
knowledge 77 will render the improvement from practice rapid and 
valuable, far beyond that to which the uneducated “ferrier” 
can eyer attain. To this we add, that while the treatment of 
domesticated animals was confined to these u ferriers,” it was 
degraded and despised ;—it was the union of “ theoretic know¬ 
ledge” with practice which raised it to its present respectability; 
