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409 
supply these glands, and which arise from the mesenteric, were 
also much larger in size than usual, as well as their correspond¬ 
ing veins. All the lymphatics in other parts of the body were in 
a natural state ; all the organs healthy; and the stomach and 
intestines contained only a very small portion of food. 
These parts, as in the former instance, were carefully removed 
and sent to the College for inspection ; as also numerous others, 
which occurred under various circumstances hereafter to be men¬ 
tioned, some of which underwent the inspection of Sir A. Cooper, 
Sir C. Bell, Mr. Brodie, Dr. Barry, &c. 
[To be continued.] 
THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1 , 1832 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
THE BRITISH OX. 
We adopt as our leading article an extract from the 1st Number 
of the forthcoming work on “ Cattle,” for the Society for the 
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, by the author of “ The Horse.” 
It is in harmony with the commencement of a series of essays 
on the intellectual and moral faculties of domesticated animals, 
and which will be continued in our next Number. 
In the earliest and most authentic account that we possess of 
the British Isles, the Commentaries of Ceesar, we learn that the 
Britons possessed great numbers of cattle ; that they compara¬ 
tively neglected the plough, and lived on the flesh and the milk 
of these animals. The fondness of this kind of food, on account 
of which foreigners sometimes attempt to ridicule the English¬ 
man, is inherited from ancestors of the remotest date. No satis¬ 
factory description of these cattle occurs in any ancient author; 
but they would seem, with occasional exceptions, to have pos¬ 
sessed no great bulk or beauty. The poets have celebrated the 
intelligence, or fidelity, or some interesting quality of almost 
every species of agricultural property but the heavy and seem¬ 
ingly stupid ox ; not so uninteresting, however, as many have 
imagined him to be, when he is closely observed, and his habits 
and capabilities watched. 
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