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Vet/-’ Having had a little experience in India myself, I felt 
doubly interested in this letter. It will give the veterinary 
surgeons in England some idea of what they have to expect 
in India. I can confirm the statements made in almost every 
particular, and I think great credit is due to the Ghost 
for bringing the matter forward; and if what he has written 
only saves a few of our young vets, from going to a climate 
like India to be badly treated and cared for, besides having to 
incur the risk of diseased livers, fevers, and many other things 
not very pleasant to contemplate upon as being in store for 
them, he will deserve the thanks of every member of the pro¬ 
fession. In England matters are otherwise, and a veterinary 
surgeon is much better oflP than in India. Any well-founded 
complaint will at once meet with the attention of our inde¬ 
fatigable principal veterinary surgeon; and if a veterinary sur¬ 
geon-general was appointed by him to each presidency, we 
should soon hear no more grumbling from the Ghost.'’^ As 
the matter now stands, there being no head to our department, 
and no one who cares about troubling themselves for the ^^poor 
vets.,^^ we need not be surprised at the result. 
I am, &c. 
To the Editors of ‘ The Veterinarian,^ 
Facts and Observations, 
Tnn Rinderpest in Italy. —\Ye learn that the rinderpest, 
which was introduced into southern Italy by some Illyrian 
joxen, disembarked either at Louciano or Foggio in the 
month of September last, is still prevalent in some parts of 
the kingdom. Its greatest fatality was reached in the months 
of November and December, but in January and February 
the extent of the malady had much decreased. From the 
statistics furnished by the prefects‘of the provinces, it seems 
that of 579 animals attacked 490 had died. The districts 
now affected are—the Abruzzi, the Campagna, and Calabria. 
The price of butcheEs meat is said to be exorbitant in Naples 
in consequence of the existence of the pest. 
A Handsome Reward. —Don Manuel Cussac, a Spanish 
veterinary surgeon, lately discovered a remedy for glanders, 
and founded an establishment in which were more than fifty 
glandered horses. He went to considerable expense in this 
