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I do not pretend to much cattle knowledge, but some of 
our veterinary surgeons are peculiarly eligible for such 
appointments in addition to their present charge, with a 
liberal allowance for the same, of course. And I think that 
all must agree with me, that such a system would be most 
conducive to the interests of the government and the well¬ 
being of the animals, and that many valuable lives would 
thus be saved that must otherwise be lost for want of proper 
treatment. 
And now, my dear sirs, I leave these reminiscences of a 
practical life entirely to your own judgment as to their 
worthiness or otherwise of a corner in your journal; and 
with every good wish for its success. 
Believe me. 
Yours most faithfully. 
Landour, 
N. W. Provinces, India. 
A PEDUNCULATED TUMOUR CAUSING STRANGU¬ 
LATION OF THE INTESTINES OF A HORSE. 
By Henry Taylor, M.R.C.Y.S., Hull. 
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The smaller intestines of a horse that I sent to you last 
week, you will have seen were strangulated in three places, and 
had a fatty tumour attached to them. These morbid parts were 
taken from ahorse thirty-three years old, belonging to Messrs. 
James and Sons, of this town, sacking manufacturers. 
I have been sent for at different times during the past four 
years to the horse for various affections, but for the last two 
years on account of attacks of spasmodic colic, which were 
always of a very violent character. The last attack began on 
the 18th, and the animal died the following night at 11 o’clock. 
Until this time the attacks yielded to the usual treatment with 
antispasmodic draughts, laxatives, backraking, and relieving 
of the bladder, which on every occasion except this last, has 
always been found full of urine having a fetid smell. 
The symptoms of each attack of spasms during the past 
two years have been the same ; and at the last one, ending 
in death, I was fetched at 6 o’clock in the morning, and found 
the horse had been ill for two or three hours. He was then 
in a fearful state, knocking about, and lying down again and 
again. I at once administered the usual antispasmodic 
draught, and a laxative one also; backraked him, and exa- 
