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CORRESPONDENCE. 
In tlie beginning of intestinal colics pilocarpine always gives, 
relief. The pulse remains from 36 to 40, and the appetite 
returns. Relapse has never been observed. The sooner it is 
used, the quicker will be the relief. 
When the colics have existed for some length of time, success 
is not so certain ; 'out then, if relapse occurs, it will subside with 
a second application of the treatment. In very severe attacks, of 
long standing, it at least always insures improvement.— Arch, of 
Thierheilk. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
“ I suppose if I give you the earth you won’t be satisfied 
unless I fence it in for you.” This was a remark I heard one 
boy make to another, the other day; and it impressed me at the 
time, as very indicative of some people’s disposition, and when I 
read Dr. Lowe’s letter, in your last issue, on the above subject, I 
could not but echo the boy’s-unique sentiment. That the gentle¬ 
men has a perfect right to give expression to his own ideas as to 
what should be, and what ought to be, I nor any one else has a 
light to question, but when he begins to pick to pieces the re¬ 
sult of the hard work of others, he must certainly expect to be 
brought up with a sharp round turn. He speaks of the Act, 
lately passed in New Tork State, as putting the college graduate of 
the nineteenth century and the illiterate, uneducated horse doctor 
on an equal footing. I really can’t believe he expects us to endorse 
such an idea. I hold there is no power in the universe that will place 
the uneducated “ on an equal footing ” with the educated, and no 
legislative power can make a gentleman of any one. I would to 
Hod it could, as I would then devote the balance of my days in 
working for such legislation, if only for the reformation of some of 
the graduates. He admits that there are some non-graduates more 
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