THE TREATMENT AND DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
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Custom-house inspection. They are brought here for the osten¬ 
sible purpose of feeding the people. Good! I will make no objection 
to this; only cut their throats directly they come. They will keep 
as well as the dead poultry, the reefls and rees, teal and widgeon, 
that accompany them. They are not required to feed the people 
at “ Alresford Fair, Hants.” This part of the subject is quite 
extrinsic of the subject of free trade; the ultimate tendency of 
free trade to produce these diseases among our cattle and sheep 
spontaneously, by farmers endeavouring to make ends meet, with 
diminished profits, is another subject, which, as I have said, will 
ultimately shew itself when you, Mr. Editor, and I are no more. 
When cattle and sheep were imported by his majesty George III, 
many noblemen and gentlemen, for the purpose of improving the 
breed, did never dream it would come to this. They have thrown 
away their money. Mr. Bakewell has thrown away his talents. 
We veterinarians (persons of no sort of influence but on our 
patients) have laboured personally, and with our pens, to prevent 
that which the free trade mania now cares little or nothing about 
producing. 
WANT OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE TREATMENT AND 
DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
By Chas. H. Wadlow, M.R.C.V.S., Oxford . 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir,—I HAVE very little time to spare for writing, and no 
wish to enter into controversy upon any subject connected with 
the treatment of cattle, although it is a subject to which I have 
always paid great attention, and, when I commenced practising my 
profession, I had a great desire to cultivate it; but 1 have taken 
up my pen to refute the reproach cast upon the veterinary sur¬ 
geons as a body at the London Farmers’ Club (viz. want of know¬ 
ledge of the diseases and treatment of cattle), as reported in your 
VETERINARIAN of last month, where Mr. Ellman feared that the 
veterinary art had not reached that eminence which would justify 
the expectation of relief, and placed more confidence in the opi¬ 
nions of his shepherd than of a veterinary surgeon ; and Mr. Hobbs 
quite agreed with Mr. Ellman in his remarks respecting veterinary 
assistance, and that persons engaged in the veterinary art had not 
paid so much attention to the diseases of cattle as of those of horses; 
and Mr. Shaw trusted that the time would arrive when that blot 
