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ON PHLEBITIS IN HORSES. 
This controversy must now cease. The subject has been a 
most interesting one: it has been discussed Avith kindly and gen¬ 
tlemanly feeling, and in a manner worthy of it. The heart of each 
writer has evidently glowed Avith sterling humanity. 
It must now cease, for it is becoming an interminable debate. 
Our friend Karkeek can never prove his point. There is this sim¬ 
ple, impassable barrier. To the scriptures of the NeAv Testament 
7nan owes his only assurance of a future state. No metaphysical 
reasoning Avill legitimately bring us to this conclusion. To the 
Gospel alone we are indebted for the promise, that, although a 
man may die, he shall live again ; but this Gospel says not a word 
of the future state of the brute. 
Therefore, in the language Avhich I have adopted in another 
work, “ We admire the intelligence and the moral qualities of the 
inferior animals; Ave find each perfect in the situation in Avhich he 
is placed: but we see plainly the limit which he has never yet 
passed. All has reference to the present state of being, and to his 
compartment of it. He lives his day, and he passes off the stage.” 
There can be no doubt that, in the future world, destined for the 
virtuous, every portion of it will, as now, under the superintendence 
of an infinitely benevolent Being, teem with life and happiness. 
Man will there live again; but what forms of existence Avill sur¬ 
round him has not yet been revealed, and it becomes us not to be 
Avise above that which is written. 
Y. 
ON PHLEBITIS IN HORSES. 
By Mr. R. Read, V.S., Crediton. 
I BEG to address you on a subject replete Avith interest, viz. 
Phlebitis in Horses, having been induced to do so from an inter¬ 
esting discussion on inflamed jugulars in the horse, in the August 
number of The VETERINARIAN. Many opportunities have been 
afforded me of investigating its cause and treatment : I think that 
I may say that more than an hundred cases have been under my 
care. 
Farmers and grooms always attribute it to the vein being cut 
through on the opposite side; and, if an inflamed vein happens in 
our practice, we are censured, and plainly told that it is owing to 
having cut the vein through. Any attempt to reason on its impro¬ 
bability is heeded not, and neither argument nor evidence will con¬ 
vince to the contrary. Should we have to bleed another horse for 
the same employer, a caution is hinted, “ Don’t strike him too hard. 
