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body all that is good in our profession in this neighbourhood. 
There are other practitioners, skilful and honourable—and whom 
we should like to lure to our club ; but this I will say, that, put¬ 
ting him who is now addressing you out of the question, there is 
no profession that in the same space, and out of the same num¬ 
bers, could collect together a set of men superior in talent, infor¬ 
mation, honour, and kindly feeling, 
‘‘ You conferred on me the honourable title of your Secretary. 
The duties which that office exacted—why they were so many 
pleasures. With you I have spent some of the happiest, and 
some of the most useful hours of my existence; for pleasure and 
professional and general improvement were always blended here. 
The office which I held among you, brought me into more fre¬ 
quent and closer contact with you all; and I wish I could tell 
you, just as I feel it, how soon, when my mind'might have been 
somewhat ill at ease from causes that concern not you, every 
cloud dispersed when I saw you, and what delight your warm 
and honest welcome imparted. 
Gentlemen, I thankfully accept the elegant present you 
have placed before me; not as a remuneration for services ren¬ 
dered, but as you, through the medium of my valued friend, 
have kindly expressed it, a testimony of your friendship—I 
proudly add, your esteem. As such I shall ever prize it—as 
such, never fear, it shall desend as an heir-loom to those I love. 
And they, too, will prize it. They w'ill hereafter speak of those 
who, in their day, were ornaments to the veterinary profession 
—with whom their father associated, and of whose friendship for 
him this was a pledge. Gentlemen, once more I thank you. 
Old Modes of Veterinary Treatment. 
[From Gervase Markham’s “ Cheap and Good Husbandry 1648.’*] 
Frenzie, or Staggers. 
Let the horse blood in the neck, three mornings together, and 
every morning to take a great quantity ; then, after each morn¬ 
ing blood-letting, give the horse this drink. Take a quart of 
ale, and boil it with a big white bread crust; then take it from 
the fire and dissolve three or four spoonfuls of honey in it. 
When lukewarm, give it the horse to drink, and cover his tem- 
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