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lie 10th instant, nor has she eaten anything. I bled her to death 
rom the carotid artery on the right side, and she died when I had 
aken from three to four quarts of blood. 
Examination .—The abdomen had about two gallons of water 
n it; and that part of the peritoneum that covers the abdomen, 
josteriorly to the ribs, was very much inflamed, and underneath it 
here was a deposit of something like fat, ol a yellowish coloui. 
\11 other parts were perfectly sound. 
THE VETERINARIAN. AUGUST 1 , 1829 . 
4 Licet omnibus, licet 
etiam milii, dignitatem artis vcterinarice tueri.”— Cicero, 
ACCORDING to announcement, a meeting of the veterinary pro¬ 
fession took place at the Freemasons’ Tavern on the 8th of last 
month; and a subsequent one, appointed by adjournment of the 
former, was held on the 22d at the same place, to the reports of 
both of which, in thq. present number, we beg to call the attention 
of our readers. 
While we pledge ourselves for the accuracy of these reports, 
we make no apology for their length. It was our wish to put our 
brethren in possession of every the minutest circumstance con¬ 
nected with these most extraordinary and disgraceful scenes; and 
to enable them justly to appreciate their character, although they 
should have to wade through much buffoonery and nonsense, in¬ 
consistency, falsehood, aye! and the display of some of the worst 
passions of our nature, in order to arrive at a just conclusion. 
From the orderly manner in which previous meetings had been 
conducted ; from the apparent desire to stifle all party spirit; and 
from the feeling which, we firmly believe, was general, that the 
state both of the profession and the art stood in need of reform, we 
confess that we were not prepared for such events as it is our pain¬ 
ful duty to record. 
It is true, that some such a result might have been contemplated 
by many, from the inauspicious complexion which the first of these 
recent meetings bore. From the violence, approaching to ma¬ 
lignity, with which resolutions, proper in themselves, were urged; 
and the equal violence and malignity with which they were op¬ 
posed—from the too frequent explosions of personal and vindic¬ 
tive feeling, they could augur no go^yl result; and hence it was, 
