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purpose of being milked. In my experience, the disease has 
predominated with the first where the latter has been prastised. 
One principal cause of chronic diarrhoea is the acute form 
neglected or improperly treated, and this frequently occurs when 
the latter is the case, at a time when the farrier has exhausted 
his store of nostrums and recipes “ to stop the running out;” at 
a stage where, in fact, when the animal has had her constitution 
so impaired by her attendant that the veterinary practitioner now 
called in, should he succeed in propping up the falling fabric, is 
supposed to have achieved, not what the other failed in doing, 
but merely an ordinary feat, or perhaps not even that. Whereas, 
should he be so impolitic as to undertake the case, and not 
happen to succeed, it is then said, ‘‘he could not stop a scouring 
Cow.” Experientia docet. A person should not be precipi¬ 
tate in giving a decisive opinion unless he be duly acquainted 
with the disease in its various forms and combinations. 
I am aware that there are many modifications of this disease 
in addition to the above; indeed, a few notes from my case¬ 
book would elucidate this remark. r 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your’s respectfully. 
W. Percivall, Esq. 
BEE v. HAYWARD. 
Case of Death Twenty Days after Purchase. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir,— The following case having been through the ordeal of 
one court of law, and excited considerable surprise owing to the 
decision of the Gloucestershire County Court Judge, trusting that 
your lengthy professional experience will induce you to make 
some comments upon it, and also that many of your able cor¬ 
respondents will not be backward in expressing their opinions 
with regard to the questions that I intend submitting to them, 
I have deemed it necessary to forward you an account of the 
same. Without trespassing longer on your valuable time and 
periodical space, I will proceed on with my narrative. By 
request of Mr. Davis (who had the loan of the horse of 
Mr. Bee, a highly respectable farmer at Dowdeswell), of this 
town, I was summoned on the 18th of June, 1851, to attend a 
black horse, very fat, and by no means, I considered, in first-rate 
working condition. 
The following were the most prominent symptoms:—great 
dyspnoea, attended with severe coughing; full bounding quick 
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