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the visible mucous membrane. The contractions of the heart per¬ 
haps increase in intensity, but the pulse becomes depressed, with 
increased quickening and gradual weakening, until it becomes 
wholly inpreceptible. 
To an experienced eye, this diagnosis is not difficult. The 
prognosis is always serious, although the intestinal congestion 
may be treated with success if undertaken at the onset. The 
treatment produces a greater or less degree of delitescence. 
When hermorrhage is present a fatal termination is to be looked 
for. 
{To be continued .) 
MEDICUS VETERINARIUS AND MEDICIN/E DOCTORIS. 
(A paper read before the New York State Veterinary Society, 
by Dk. A. Liautard, V.S) 
In offering you, Mr. President and gentleman, this paper 
this evening, I wish in the beginning, to make a preliminary 
statement which I hope will be fully comprehended. I de¬ 
sire to have it understood that I do not present my remarks as 
coming from one who objects to the means employed in further¬ 
ance of the interests of the cause of thorough education. To 
secure this invaluable acquisition; to perfect himself in his call¬ 
ing ; to be able to apply all the means by which he can make 
himself fully master of his trade, his profession, his calling, is an 
achievement honorable in itself, and to effect which is perfectly 
justifiable by all honorable means. But at the present time my 
object is to suggest for your discussion and judgment the ques¬ 
tion, whether I am right in my appreciation of the tendency be¬ 
trayed by many young veterinarians in our day, to endeavor to 
rush from the halls where they have just graduated as Y.S. or 
D.Y.S., directly to the lecture desk, and to become forthwith 
eligible to a degree of M.D. In other words, is this at the pres¬ 
ent time, a title which it is indispensable for men in our calling 
to possess? Is it for the honor of prefixing the M.D. to their 
D.Y.S., or is it their need of a more complete medical education 
