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been promoted, do not receive any increase of pay in conse¬ 
quence, and yet in England the pay improves after every five 
years of service up to twenty-five. Surely a man serving 
abroad has an equal right to this indulgence. If there were 
a veterinary surgeon-general in the Bengal presidency to 
represent this in the proper quarter, it would, I feel certain, 
be very soon altered. 
Yours, &c., 
Argus. 
. I'o the Editors of ‘ The Veterinarian^ 
THE LATE FATAL OUTBREAK OF DISEASE 
AMONGST THE FOXHOUNDS IN THE EAST- 
LOTHIAN KENNELS. 
By SCRUTATOR.^^ 
Sir, —Two papers on the above subject have been pub- 
ished by Mr. Gamgee, senior, in the ^Edinburgh Veterinary 
Review,^ and another by Professor Dick has appeared in 
your Journal. A few comments by an impartial reader will 
not, I trust, be deemed by you an inappropriate communica¬ 
tion, and I shall therefore feel obliged by your inserting it in 
your extensively read periodical. In the first published 
account by Mr. Gamgee, under the extraordinary title of 
‘ Extraordinary Phenomenon of Disease and Death amongst 
the East-Lothian Foxhounds,^ he states that, on visiting the 
kennel on Monday afternoon, the 22nd of September, he 
found twenty-eight couples of bounds, constituting the pack 
that had hunted on Saturday the 20th,/or the first time this 
season [the italics are not iMr. Gamgee’s] prostrate on the 
benches, labouring under a violent state of cholera. A case 
of poisoning was suggested to the minds of every one pre¬ 
sent, myself included.^’ And, The water of a particular 
pond at which the hounds had drank in the heat of the day, 
occurred to the huntsman as the source of the evil.” I found 
that a violent irritation of the alimentary passage prevailed; 
the symptoms were excessive vomiting and purging, spasms 
of the intestines, and some of the patients voided streaks of 
blood with the evacuations.” The first hounds attached were 
observed on Sunday afternoon soon after feeding [the italics are 
not Mr. Gamgee'’s], and on Monday morning their disordered 
state had become general.” ^intussusception caused the 
