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the pay of the latter rank, thus receiving £5 10$. a month 
more than now. This service in India is a great mistake. 
To people in England the sum total of our pay and allowances, 
looked at as a whole, sounds large; but if w r e deduct the 
special allowances given for certain purposes, such as house 
allowance, &c., w r e find that the pay of a veterinary surgeon 
in India is, after all, but 13s. 4d. a day during his first ten 
years, and 17$. during his second ten years' service. What 
is this in a country where our ordinary clothing and uniform 
cost at least 100 per cent, more than at home, and our food 
and w r ines from 50 to 75? We ought to be better paid for 
serving in such a country and climate: and 1 am certain the 
Veterinary Surgeon-General at home w T ould be only too glad 
to urge the claims of the w 7 hole body w T ere the matter laid 
before him in a clear and true light. 
I think the older veterinary surgeons out here have even 
still greater cause for complaint. I know several w r ho have 
served over twenty years, and yet they get but captain’s pay 
and allowances. There are two or three of about thirty 
years' service, w 7 ho, if they were serving at home, wrnuld get 
23$. a day. Out here they draw 265 . 8 cl. Surely 3$. Sd. is 
scarcely enough to make up for the difference in price of 
everything in England and in India! leaving out of the ques¬ 
tion the extra pay expected for serving in such a vile country 
as India; far away from home and friends, and from every 
amusement to which an Englishman in England is accus¬ 
tomed. 
Remember, there is no barrack accommodation in India for 
officers; no free quarters, coals, or candles ; no soldier-ser¬ 
vants for nominal wages; no part payment of forage cost by 
the Government: all this has to be paid for by the officer 
himself out of his extra allowances given for these special 
purposes. I have given you his pay minus these allow 7 - 
ances. 
[The case of rupture of the stomach containing w T orms, 
communicated by “ Argus/' is a most interesting and in¬ 
structive one. It opens up a rare field of research, especially 
perhaps in India and other tropical climes, as to the real 
causes W'hich are occasionally in operation to produce a 
weakening of the coats of the stomach, and w hich may ulti¬ 
mately end in rupture of that organ. The ulcers of w 7 hich 
“Argus" speaks are probably the effect only of parasites. 
Many of the spots in which loss of structure was observed 
by him we should be inclined to regard as cicatrices which had 
followed the obliteration of cysts originally containing w r orms, 
