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will continue such so long as he is kept in ignorance and 
grovelling in the dark. Society is all the time sustaining an 
unknown amount of injury from a cause of this kind. Now 
if this evil be admitted, and I believe no one will deny it, then I 
say it is plainly our bounden duty to devise a remedy. These 
very sentiments I urged upon the attention of the profession 
in a paper in the Veterinarian , twenty-two years ago, and now 
being more confirmed in their soundness, I would say if the 
veterinary empiric is to be allowed to practice at all, if he 
really is irrepressible and must be tolerated—a conclusion I 
for one can by no means agree in—then in that case make 
him as useful a member of society as you can. Allow 
him free access to sound views and correct principles. It has 
not been yet proved to me that the empiric by obtaining a 
diploma becomes either a less useful or valuable member of 
society. Indeed the fixed impression on my mind is, that 
unless all men intending to commence practice should choose 
to embrace the opportunities thus placed within their reach, 
they should be by law prohibited from practising altogether. 
I am, &c. 
To the 'Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian / 
INTUS-SUSCEPTION OE THE C^CUM IN A 
HORSE. 
By Charles Dayus, M.R.C.V.S., Longnor, Salop. 
At midnight on Monday, the 28th of March last, I was 
requested to visit an aged cart-horse, seven miles from this 
place, said to be suffering from “ gripes/ 5 On my arrival I 
learned that the animal had been ill since the previous day, 
Sunday, and that some antispasmodic medicine had been 
given at intervals during Monday. The symptoms had not 
appeared of a very acute nature, which I suppose accounted 
for the owner’s comparative little anxiety about him. On 
my arrival I found the horse standing; pulse a little in¬ 
creased in frequency; visible mucous membranes slightly 
reddened; breathing undisturbed, and the extremities rather 
cold. He turned an anxious look at times to his side, 
which, with a shuffling of his feet from place to place, indicated 
some abdominal pain. Believing at the time that the 
case was one of indigestion only, I gave a stimulant com¬ 
bined with a fair dose of aloes in solution, threw up an 
enema, and had the abdomen rubbed with mustard. After a 
