EDITORIAL. 
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ttcr from our friend Dr. Lowe, which we laid before our read¬ 
's ' m our last issue. In our present number we print an answer 
om Dr. Pen dry, who, having fought so bravely for the passage 
: the act, comes now to its defence and rescue. In the ar^u- 
ent held by the Doctor, he evidently also considers the mutila- 
)n of section 2 as a matter of little importance, provided only 
e * * * veterinarians will, one and all, do their duty— 
hich we hope will be the case. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia again. —Our correspondent, Dr. Gadsden, 
is requested the insertion in our columns of the following notice, 
request with which we comply with pleasure. The name to 
hich he objects is not only used in England, but is also of com- 
on application in France —La peripneumomie contagieuse being 
e name given by French veterinarians, by Delafont and others, 
id corresponding with our contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
From the transactions of the Veterinary Medical Association 
England, meeting January 6th, 1843, pages 214 to 217, “from 
• Lepper, V. S., Aylesbury ;” he was describing some cases of 
is new disease. 
“Lung on the right side was consolidated, and weighed thirty- 
70 pounds, while that portion on the other side weighed only 
>out five pounds, and a large portion of fibrin or plastic lymph 
tervened between the pleura-pneumonalis and pleura-costalis, 
e whole being united so as to form one mass. Both of the 
einbranes were greatly thickened, as was also the inferior part 
the diaphram, to which a portion of the lung was adherent, 
le deceased portion of the lung, when divided, presented a very 
ie marbled appearance, arising from the cellular tissue which 
nnects each lobule of the lung being surcharged with fibrin, 
is separating each lobule some distance apart, and varying in 
ickness from the third part of a line to the eighth part of an 
cli. I am at a loss as to the name by which the disease may be 
rreetly designated, and I suppose others much more competent 
an myself are equally undecided. 
t “ Pieuro-peripneumonia ” appears to me the most appropriate; 
is evidently a specific disease.” 
Now, Mr. Editor, won’t you publish this to the profession, as I 
ink it ought to be known who gave it that name. In my opinion 
was a very poor one. J. W. G. 
