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have requested Mr. Hickman, to make a general examination of 
him after that gentleman had declared himself satisfied upon the 
point in dispute.” New, the facts are these When I was re¬ 
quested by the Rev. Mr. Roberts to examine the horse, I only 
examined the rupture; and told Mr. Croft that, in my opinion, 
it did not amount to unsoundness. Mr. Croft told me he was 
sure I should be of that opinion, and expressed his sorrow that 
it was not in my power to attend his summons, and wished me 
to give him a certificate to that effect. I then told Mr. Croft 
that, before I certified the horse was sound, I must examine him 
generally, and upon which examination I discovered the cataract. 
MR. HALES IN REPLY TO MR. CARTWRIGHT— 
CATARACT AND HERNIA. 
My paper on Cataract, 8cc. published in the July number of 
The Veterinarian, has produced a reply from Mr. Cart¬ 
wright, evidently written under the influence of very angry feel¬ 
ings. Being no advocate for disputation, nor fond of “ wordy 
war,” I shall pass over all the first part of his letter, as requiring 
neither note nor comment, till I come to the passage in which he 
accuses me of a wish to detract from his professional reputation, 
and very politely says, he does not believe my assertion to the 
contrary. This charge of detraction is founded on the circum¬ 
stance/that I have been the only man to find fault with several 
of his communications in this Journal. I found no fault with, 
his paper on cataract beyond stating the fact, that he ought to 
have named the source from which he first derived his informa¬ 
tion, particularly as he charged another practitioner with using 
borrowed opinions as his own. Of the other numerous papers 
which Mr. C. has published in The Veterinarian, I have, in 
no way alluded to more than two of them. The first is “ Cases of 
Rupture of the Diaphragmand of them I have merely said, that 
it appeared problematical, whether the rupture of the diaphragm 
was the cause of death, or w 7 as produced by struggles in the 
agonies of death. The other paper that I made any observations 
on is a case of “ dropsy of the abdomen of a mare:” of this I 
remarked, that I did not possess the “ tactus eruditus ” of Mr. 
Cartwright, and could not detect water in the abdomen by per¬ 
cussion, or what he terms shaking* it; nor did I consider his 
other tests to discover water in the abdomen as infallible. 
Had there been no other object in view in writing the few pa¬ 
pers that I have done for The Veterinarian than a desire to 
deprecate the character of Mr. Cartwright, or any other profes- 
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