CASE OF PNEUMONIA. 
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breathing became easy and natural. The next day the animal 
was removed from my stables, but required a month to recruit 
strength sufficient to enable her to resume her former avocations. 
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I am happy to congratulate the Editors on the great success 
“ The Veterinarian” has met with since its commencement. 
Such a periodical was long wanting to the veterinary world, par¬ 
ticularly to those members who, like myself, are situated at so 
great a distance from the metropolis. I had occasion to peruse 
only two or three of your first numbers to be convinced that I 
and my veterinary brethren would derive from them both pleasure 
and instruction. 
Simul et jucunda, et idonea discere vitas. 
Persevere in the plan you have adopted, to invite and stimulate 
enquiry, and your publication cannot fail to secure the aura po¬ 
pularity and prove not only the source of individual improvement 
but of great national benefit. Swerve not, on any account, from 
the path which has hitherto proved so useful to the profession ; 
and you may depend on enjoying the confidence, not of the poor 
self-humiliated pro-collegiatesy who, powerless and contemptible, 
exult in submitting to the arbitrary decisions of a few monopo¬ 
lists, but of all the wise, and good, and respectable among us ; 
and you will possess, and direct for our advantage, that truest and 
noblest source of power, public opinion. 
At a time like the present, when the daemon of misrule stalks 
abroad, 
Jngrediturquc solo, ct caput inter nubila condit; 
when party spirit, clamour, and abuse, spread contagion around, 
and reason and common sense are systematically and openiy out¬ 
raged ; at such a time, your periodical, conducted with the fear¬ 
less yet moderate spirit you have hitherto manifested, will be 
truly valuable ; and it more than ever behoves each honest mem¬ 
ber of the veterinary profession, ea'ch one who wishes to support 
his rank in society, and who has the interests of his profession at 
heart, to step forward and avow his sentiments, unless he wishes 
to be branded on the forehead, and to the bone, with the inde¬ 
lible mark of degradation - *v le peTwny TBvfcev- 
W. F. Karkeek. 
