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CORRESPONDENCE. 
and was by measure in extent about six inches in an upward 
direction. 
As to the cause of such a rupture it was thought that the horse, 
subsisting, as it did, mainly on green food, had eaten too freely, 
and in galloping down hill (the farm being a very hilly one) with 
its over-extended stomach, by a sudden check or plunge had 
cansed the rupture. 
The peculiar position before referred to assumed by the ani¬ 
mal at frequent intervals, I believe, has been considered diagnosis 
of ruptured stomach ; but I can understand its being far more 
symptomatic of lesions in the diaphragm, especially when we 
have an overcharged stomach or a hardened liver pressing upon 
this vitally important structure. 
I believe that lesions of this important muscular septum are 
more frequent terminations of the lives of many horses than are 
supposed. 
I hope my desire to trespass on the space of this valuable 
journal will be pardoned, but as veterinary literature on this 
subject is somewhat vague, I thought the case might prove as in¬ 
teresting (if not instructive) to some readers as it is to myself.— 
From the Yeterinary Journal. 
CORRESPONDENCE, 
IMPERFECT YETERINARY EDUCATION—IS IT TRAFFIC [N 
YETERINARY DIPLOMAS? 
It is a well known fact, even advertised in The Spirit of the 
Times , that junior students can enter a certain veterinary college 
at any time up to the 4th of January. During my career as a 
student at a provincial college, I observed that junior students 
were actually admitted as late as the 26th of January. Then, as 
at preseut, they advertised a special course or class for junior 
students, to begin early in January ; though, in reality, there was 
no special course or class established for junior students, and 
there was only one course and class for junior students, which 
began at the beginning of the session or opening of the college, 
late in October or early in November. 
