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is equally worthy the attention, and that, too, the most minute at¬ 
tention that can be bestowed upon it; and I would sentence that 
surgeon who is engaged in this branch of practice, and refuses 
to contribute his mite of information, to be deprived henceforth 
of the privilege of partaking of that pre-eminent part of British 
fare, a piece of roast beef. I am extremely surprised that the 
noble example of Mr. Youatt, whose lectures contain much ex¬ 
cellent information on this subject, and whose appointment to 
the office of public lecturer at the University I consider an 
auspicious event to the agricultural as well as to the veterinary 
world, has not influenced the members of the profession to en¬ 
deavour to aid that gentleman, who, I believe, at present stands 
alone, entirely dependent upon his own spirited and indefatigable 
exertions. 1 shall conclude, gentlemen, by expressing my ardent 
desire that these few plain and obvious remarks may have the 
happy effect of rousing the dormant energies of some of the 
many talented contributors to your journal, and constraining 
them to exclaim with Phaeton— 
Pudet liaec opprobiia nobis. 
Et dici potiiisse 5c non potuisse refelli; 
and by future perseverance to compensate for past neglect. 
Should this desideratum be accomplished, I shall consider myself, 
although but a homely and not very perspicuous, yet an ex¬ 
tremely fortunate scribe. With every feeling of pleasure at the 
increasing prosperity of your valuable Journal, 1 shall subscribe 
myself. Gentlemen, your well wisher, W. C. 
We cordially thank our agricultural correspondent for this 
communication. It gives us pleasure to know that our Journal 
is read and valued beyond the pale of our own profession: and 
from such men as Mr. Clarke we can best learn what is needed 
to render our work more interesting and useful to the agricul¬ 
turist, and, by no very circuitous induction, more interesting and 
useful to the veterinarian also. 
The subject to which he alludes, the general and medical 
treatment of cattle, has been comparatively neglected in our 
Journal; yet not to the extent that our correspondent imagines. 
Mr. Youatt is not so perfectly deserted. The names of Cart¬ 
wright, Cotchiefer, Dick, Dickens, Farrow, Garlancf, Hales, 
Karkeek, King, J. Sewell, Shield, W. C. Spooner, and Tait, im¬ 
mediately occur to us as having, to a greater or less extent, 
treated of the maladies of cattle, and some of them most scienti¬ 
fically. True ! half of them were pupils of him, or of the Pro¬ 
fessor of the Edinburgh school, and the remainder acquired their 
knowledge of the diseases of cattle by the painful process which 
