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in a quart of gruel. In bad cases I give powdered digitalis and 
calomel in drachm doses every eight or twelve hours, in gruel. 
Hoping these few lines will be accepted, 
I am, Sirs, 
Your’s, &c. 
R. Sumner. 
A REPLY TO W. J. G. 
By Y. S. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
The few remarks I am about to intrude on your attention, 
you will, 1 know, cordially assign a corner to in your next 
number. The Veterinarian is a work I warmly esteem, 
and solicitously desire to see advanced and supported, as an 
organ of much good in many ways to our profession, and a 
medium through which I trust yet to see much and many 
things successfully advocated and originated further to im¬ 
prove veterinary medicine and the condition of veterinarians. As 
a general storehouse and unbiassed disseminator of the opi¬ 
nions and views of all, it cannot reject or decline to register 
those of any, which are neither too personally vehement in ex¬ 
pression, nor notoriously erroneous; consequently, it is in no 
degree responsible for the bearings or complexion of conflicting 
sentiments it may usher forth. I indulge in this preamble to 
account for the appearance in its pages of modes of thinking 
and conclusions so opposed as those of W. J. G. in your 
February number and mine. 
What I am about to say is in no way meant as a rejoinder, or 
in reply to the communication of W. J. G. in particular. It is 
on the theme, in a more general sense, I wish to comment, for 
some few others have vented similar and corresponding animad¬ 
versions. To say the very least, they are too broad to be in 
good taste; and I did trust that, with a certain faction, so 
unmeasured and deepened colouring had been voted into disuse. 
It is under two distinct points of view I would deprecate and 
decry such modes of speaking and writing of the profession and 
its present head : to wit, they are in degree unfounded and in 
tendency disserviceable on the one hand, and that they are 
personal, and illiberal, and undeserved on the other. They not 
only serve no good purpose, but in the eyes of the rest of the 
world are calculated to unnecessarily lower us. 1 am stimulated 
