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SPAYING OF COWS. 
fact, they stood in their stalls fastened in the usual way, and 
did not require any additional appliance by chain or tether 
during the spaying process. Swelling ensued, and continued 
for two or three days. This, however, was anticipated ; and 
after subsiding, the cows, with a little simple treatment, 
appeared to suffer no inconvenience from the effects of the 
operation. 
One of the number was seized with pleuro-pneumonia , and 
I had her slaughtered; and on examining the region from 
which the ovaries had been removed, I was satisfied that the 
spaying process, so far as the operation' was concerned, had 
been quite successful. The other animals were sold at in¬ 
tervals, and the sacrifice of value 1 now hear of for the first time 
from Mr. Galley, a remark which will also apply to the beef 
being either diseased or unsaleable. 
Professor Gamgee did not charge a fee. In fact, before 
he commenced the operation suggested by M. Charlier, he 
distinctly stated that they were experiments for the purpose 
of testing its utility, and that he would neither ask nor accept 
a fee. 
In the face of these facts, it is somewhat inconceivable 
how Mr. Calley could make the assertions he has done. So 
far also from any restriction having been put upon Mr. 
Gamgee’s operations, I may here take the opportunity of 
stating that my whole stock was, with the most unlimited 
confidence, placed at his diposal for testing the operation in 
question. 
Prom the days of Hippocrates up to the present time, 
science has always had its screech owls. 
Independent of the request, however, to give the new opera¬ 
tion a fair trial, so far as I am aware, Mr. Gamgee professed 
nothing of advantage. It will require a much longer time, 
and experiments on a greater scale, to decide the question 
correctly; and certainly this is not likely to be facilitated by 
any ill-timed or caustic remarks on the proceedings of the 
investigators. 
I am, 
Yours, &c. 
To the 'Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian .’ 
