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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
having written to you before on this snbjeet, you are aware 
1 am one of those practising without a diploma, and I am 
induced to write again on the same subject, seeing that a 
great number of the profession are inclined to do us justice, 
and I would respectfully press the matter before the profes¬ 
sion. They would find that there would not be so many 
press forward before the appointed ordeal as might be ex¬ 
pected. I know most of the members, as well as those un- 
certificated, in the north and west of Ireland at present 
practising as veterinary surgeons, and I am sure there are 
not more than five who wmuld be at all likely to present 
themselves; they have always practised and been recognised 
as veterinary surgeons, and holding a respectable position; 
one of them I believe holds the certificate of the Highland 
Society, and another has spent two sessions at the Veterinary 
College; each of us are engaged in practice, have families, 
and could not leave our business for any length of time. I 
see a Veterinary Medical Association is about to be formed 
in Dublin, and I would respectfully suggest that a board, 
composed of a few of the city veterinary surgeons, including 
some of the vets, of the garrisons quartered there, should 
be appointed to examine such candidates as would present 
themselves, subject, of course, to such conditions as might 
be laid down by the Council of the U.C.V.S., but, by all 
means, they should have the power to reject any candidate 
for want of education and social position. 
I remain, &c. 
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Pathological Contributions. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Since the publication of our last number the severity of 
this disease seems to have abated in the London dairies, but 
in the home counties, and also in Nottingham and York¬ 
shire in particular, it continues to widen the area of its ex¬ 
istence. M"e learn that the malady has assumed a very 
malignant type on a farm near to Northallerton, and that it 
is also attacking one animal after another on a dairy farm in 
the neighbourhood of Nottingham. As we have so fre¬ 
quently^ remarked, nothing short of stern legislation will 
keep this contagious and destructive disease in check. 
