560 CONTRIBUTIONS TO VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
treating unsuccessfully, (one of irritation of the brain.) 
Amongst other things, I negatived venesection in that par¬ 
ticular instance; on returning half an hour after, the enemy 
had stormed the castle in my absence, principally with abuse, 
had bled the victim, and made a body of it, (a dead one I 
mean.) That small portion of experience cost the owner £12. 
Another highly talented man, a Mr. Beale, cured a mare and 
foal of the mange, on the faith of which she went to work 
amongst a small farmer’s horses. A short while after, the 
“ cured” animal had hardly a hair on its body. I had to treat 
it, as w r ell as all the horses belonging to the farmer. It 
proved a considerable loss to him, that being a busy 
time. 
We have the prototype of Mr. Wallace also, one John 
Thomas, Esq., who cures pleuro-pneumonia, and a few other 
simple diseases; amongst others, lockjaw. I saw a patient 
of his, said to labour under the latter disease. The mare had 
received a kick on the lower jaw, which produced a very 
effectual closure of the mouth for some time. Yet this was 
another wonderful cure! It would be needless to multiply 
instances; yet wdien these sort of people publish their 
triumphs over the veterinary profession in the newspapers, 
veterinarians w r ill only do right in making public a few of 
their mistakes as a sort of set-off. 
I should be very far from objecting to any one possessing 
the power of doing good, exercising it; but the case is very 
different with these quacks and empirics, who, provided they 
they can gain a few shillings, care nothing how much an 
animal suffers, or his owner loses ! 
*** The subjoined is the “ v T onderful practitioner’s” case 
adverted to by Mr. Gavin:— 
Accident to a Mare. Singular Cure. —Mr. T. Wilkinson, of 
Maunby, had a mare which fell into a ditch, and was so much 
bruised and injured that she became quite paralysed and 
unable to get up. One of the most eminent veterinary 
surgeons in the neighbourhood was called in, who pro¬ 
nounced the case “ hopeless,” and left her, advising her to be 
shot. Mr. John Cussons, groom to Mrs. Walker, of Maunby 
Hall, w T ho happened to be standing, by had the mare slung, 
and administered such medicines as he thought suitable to 
the case, and in a few days performed one of the most surprising 
cures on record* {York Herald .)— [Humbug, Ed. A et.] 
