THE ARMY VETERINARY 
576 
Circumstances delayed the examination of the carcase until 
decomposition had commenced. The stomach contained a small 
quantity of straw and hair, and half a pint of olive-coloured 
fluid. It presented one uniform mass of violent inflammation. 
The pharynx exhibited an intensity of inflammation which I had 
never before witnessed. The trachea was seemingly unaffected, 
and also the intestines; but the pleura of the lungs had the 
patchy character so often seen in rabies. The brain was one 
pulpy mass. 
This experiment cannot be considered as elucidating any thing 
decisive as to the effect of the Scutellaria, for a small portion 
only of each dose could be got down, and the exhibition of it 
was soon suspended. 
I purposely refrain at present from making any observations 
on the case,—they will better belong to a work which I have in 
contemplation, although it probably will not appear until a far 
distant period: in the mean time, I thought that a case so 
unusual, standing almost alone as it regards the dog, should 
not be altogether withheld from the medical public. 
THE VETERINARIAN , OCTOBER 1 , 1830 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
Our present number is of a more controversial nature than 
usual, and far more than we like: but we, as other men, are the 
creatures of circumstances, and must occasionally be what our 
correspondents choose to make us. 
The subjects, however, which are discussed are of vital im¬ 
portance—they are the very essence of our being, and prosperity 
as a profession. We refer, first, to the army veterinary depart¬ 
ment. It cannot be doubted that our Professor was perfectly 
right, when he asserted, in the dedication to the king of his work 
on the foot of the horse, that “by conferring on veterinary 
surgeons employed in the cavalry the rank of commissioned 
officers, his majesty had done more to promote the veterinary 
art than otherwise could have been effected in centuries.’" And 
how 1 —by admitting into the superior ranks of society a portion 
of our profession, and giving them a legitimate claim to that ad- 
