ON ENTERITIS IN THE DOG. 
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inaiiitained at several places: horses of pure Arabian, English, 
and Spanish blood are purchased, and races established at many 
places with royal prizes. In some of the announcements, carriage 
races are enumerated among the sports. All this must have a 
beneficial effect; but they can never hope to compete with us, so 
long as posting is a government monopoly, and stage coaches are 
not allowed to pass each other on the road. 
Having trespassed so much already on the space of your Jour¬ 
nal, it is needless for me to enumerate the characteristics of our 
national breed, as they are so well known to all my professional 
brethren; but I will, in a future number, conclude my subject, by 
offering a few deductions from the preceding facts, and which 
must prove to all who feel an interest in this noble animal, the 
necessity,—now that foreign powers are alive to the importance 
of maintaining and improving their national breed,—the paramount 
necessity, in fact, that must stimulate our exertions to uphold the 
superiority hitherto so justly awarded to us. 
ON ENTERITIS IN THE DOG. 
By W. You ATT. 
Enteritis in the Dog is the title of an Essay discussed at a 
meeting of the Veterinary Medical Association, and recorded in the 
portion of our periodical of the present month devoted to a report 
of the proceedings of that Association. It may be readily imagined 
with what delight, although confined to a sick bed, I heard of the 
introduction of such a subject in the Theatre of the Royal Vete¬ 
rinary College. I looked back to the period when it was deemed 
an offence to the powers that were to consider the dog as a legiti¬ 
mate object of the veterinary surgeon’s care. It was on this ground 
chiefly that the writer of the present article experienced a degree 
of insult and persecution which determined him to pursue a course 
of his own amidst the aspirants after veterinary fame; and to this 
portion of veterinary practice he still adheres with a degree of 
pertinacity which increases with years. He begs leave most cor¬ 
dially to thank the author of this Essay for the courage and ability 
which he has displayed; and he is confident that he will be for¬ 
given if, in some points, he decidedly disagree with him, both in 
theory and practice. It is a new ground, and each one may, for 
some time yet to come, pursue his own path. 
hlNTERiTls. —I do not like the term. It implies a distinction 
which we arc not yet, in (‘very case, warranted to draw; or it con¬ 
fuses diseases which may exist altogether separately. Peritonitis 
