252 ABSCESSES IN THE CEREBELLUM OF A HORSE. 
the heat-giving principles, which are as necessary for the 
maintenance of health and life as the flesh-formers. It must 
therefore be burnt up in the organism; but before this can be 
done, it has to undergo the conversion we have been alluding 
to, so that it may become absorbed. All that is not so 
changed may be viewed as waste. But should it not be burnt 
up, then it is deposited in the form of fat, which in excess is 
abnormal, or assumes the form of a disease. Well has Pro¬ 
fessor Thompson said, (e When cattle are fed for the purpose 
of serving as human food, there ought not to be such a super¬ 
abundance of fatty matter deposited as is usual with some of 
the animal monsters designated fat cattle. When they are 
fed properly, with a due attention to allowing them a certain 
amount of exercise, the fat and the lean are deposited in 
healthy proportions, and the cattle may then be employed 
without risk as human food/’ 
ABSCESSES IN THE CEREBELLUM OP A 
HORSE. 
By II. Corby, M.R.C.Y.S., St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. 
Communicated by Assistant-Professor Varnell, Royal Veterinary 
College. 
Gentlemen, —I have just received a letter from my friend, 
Mr. II. Corby, late demonstrator of anatomy in this Institu¬ 
tion. He has enclosed the particulars of a case, which he 
desires me to hand to you, with his compliments. He fur¬ 
ther informs me that he has commenced the practice of his 
profession in the large and flourishing city of St. Louis, 
state of Missouri, United States. The inhabitants of St. 
Louis may congratulate themselves upon having a gentleman 
of Mr. Corby’s scientific attainments located amongst them; 
for I feel sure that he will prove an acquisition both to the 
town and its vicinity. I therefore hope he will receive that 
support which we all believe him to deserve. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian* 
A gelding, five years old, was purchased by his present 
owner early in January last; being, at the time of purchase, 
apparently affected with laryngitis. 
