ULCERATION OF A BLOODVESSEL. 
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distance between our actual position and that to which we aspire, 
your Royal Highness will not see in our prayer any assumption 
of pretensions too elevated ; and we are assured that you will 
not, if it is remembered that the boundary of our wishes, if we 
may so express it, is to obtain that rank which assistant-surgeons 
possess at their entrance into the service, and that we only ask 
to finish where they begin. 
Receive, Monseigneur, &c. &c. 
Recueil 1837, p. 383. 
[This far too modest prayer was, like all the others, referred to 
the minister of war; and in his bureau the petition, probably, 
remains at the present moment. We trust that the professors 
of the Alfort School will demand and will obtain higher rank 
and privileges. It is essential to his respectability and use¬ 
fulness that the veterinary surgeon, the moment he joins the 
regiment, should become a commissioned officer, as in the 
British service. This is necessary to ensure him the proper 
consideration of those with whom he will be brought into 
daily contact; it will be indispensable, in order to enable him to 
adopt and to carry out those plans of management and of 
treatment, in sickness and in health, of the propriety of which 
he, from his education, is the only competent judge, and which 
are essentially connected with the good of the service. There¬ 
fore, we should say to our French brethren, assume higher 
ground than this memorial takes, and rest not until you are 
placed in that situation to which your profession and your 
utility entitle you to aspire.—Y.] 
DEATH CAUSED BY ULCERATION OF A BLOOD¬ 
VESSEL IN A TUMOUR ON THE CiECUM. 
From Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
On Sunday the 24th of June 1838, Mr. Blundell, of the Wood- 
houses, near Whitchurch, sent his servant boy, about 3 o’clock 
in the morning, to fetch a half-bred mare from the field. He 
found her grazing, but could not catch her there ; he therefore 
drove her up to the stable, and there gave her some grass, of 
which she ate a little. Half an hour after she had been brought 
up, she began to paw and stamp her foot, and soon after lay 
down, but did not roll over. The owner concluded that she 
had the colic, and accordingly sent offi the boy for a farrier 
