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ARMY VETERINARY SURGEON IN INDIA. 
eyes and head were dreadfully bruised, from the violence with 
which the animal had dashed about during the previous 
night; the pulse was about 80 in the minute, but feeble ; the 
extremities were cold, and the respiration extremely laborious ; 
in fact, the symptoms closely resembled those of the latter 
stages of enteritis, and I must confess that] I treated him 
accordingly, though without much hope of success. 
Three hours afterwards the respiration was still more 
difficult, which I should have thought impossible had I not 
seen it, the pulse indistinct, and the animal manifested great 
distress. 
He died at4 p.m., three hours previous to which he remained 
standing, and appeared to be easier, which I attributed to 
mortification having set in. All at once he fell and expired. 
At nine the following morning I made a 2 ^ost~mortem ex¬ 
amination, when I found that the diaphragm was ruptured 
on the right side, and that six feet three inches of the small 
intestines had protruded into the thoracic cavity. Some of 
the intestines were inflamed, but the protruding portions were 
completely mortified. The lungs were collapsed, but other¬ 
wise healthy, and the abdominal viscera (with the exception 
of that already mentioned) also appeared in a healthy state. 
The aperture in the diaphragm was about the size of a crown- 
piece, and the edges icere thickened, quite smooth, and healed over, 
as if it had been ruptured for some time. Is it not possible 
that the rupture in the diaphragm may have existed for some 
time without interfering with the general health of the animal, 
beyond the alteration in his respiration, which would not be 
observed, as the animal was at grass ; and that the intestines 
were forced through the opening during the gambols of this 
colt and a little entire companion, which were often noticed 
previous to his illness? 
ON THE PAY AND POSITION OF THE ARMY 
VETERINARY SURGEON IN INDIA. 
India; August 6,1S63. 
Gentlemen, —I have intended to write to you for a long 
time on the above subject, and I am induced to do so now, 
without further loss of time, by seeing that a large number 
of young gentlemen have lately passed their examination; and 
also knowing that a very mistaken idea is entertained by many 
persons at home as to Indian pay and allowances, I may, 
through your assistance, be instrumental in undeceiving 
some as to the emoluments accruing to a veterinary surgeon 
