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general nervous excitement, more or less intense, according to 
the quantity taken, I should say that theoretically its use is 
not advisable in a disease like tetanus. Again, paralysis and 
tetanus are diseases of the most distinctly opposite nature, 
and if lliang be an effectual remedy in one, how can it pos¬ 
sibly be in the other? 
Natives of India, even of the most cowardly classes, will, 
while under the influence of this drug, perform prodigies of 
valour, utterly regardless of personal risk, and are actuated 
by a desire to destroy all who come in their way, and this 
under circumstances where, if they were not drugged, they 
would bolt to a certainty. 
SPAYING OF COWS. 
Letter from Mr. Joseph Y'oung, of Burntisland. 
Gentlemen, —In the February number of your journal 
I read with no little surprise an article, entitled — Ci Additional 
Observations on Cow-spaying” by Andrew Calley. 
As a party especially interested, having been the owner of 
the nine cows operated upon, and referred to in Mr. Calley’s 
“Observations,” I have, in vindication of truth, and also in 
justice to Professor Gamgee, no hesitation in giving an un¬ 
qualified denial to the greater part of Mr. Calley’s assertions. 
Mr. Calley was surely, when composing the article, reclining 
upon “ the baseless fabric of a vision,” or he had his mind 
absorbed in the grave and remote incident which he mentions 
of “ Pharaoh’s dream,” where the 66 seven lean-fleshed kine,” 
in the Egyptian famine, had consumed seven of their grami¬ 
nivorous neighbours. 
The article throughout seems to have been instigated more 
by a spirit of ill-feeling against Mr. Gamgee than, as its 
title purports, of conveying information to your readers by 
“ additional observations” on the subject. 
The facts are as follow :—'When Mr. Gamgee came to me, 
requesting that I would allow him to test the utility of “ cow- 
spaying,” he called my attention to the opinion of M. Charlier, 
a well-known French veterinary surgeon. The object in 
view was that of asertaining whether the experiment would 
prove commercially advantageous or the reverse. I was present 
at all the nine operations, and can testify that the animals 
did not evince any great evidence of torture or agony. In 
