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and condition, soon became weak, listless, and excessively 

 emaciated, frequently passing large portions of the tape-worm • 

 this induced me to examine the intestines of several hares and 

 rabbits, and, with very few exceptions, I found each to contain a 

 perfect tape- worm, from three to four feet in length. I then 

 caused two of the dogs whose cases appeared the worst, to be 

 separated from the others, feeding them on potatoes, Sfc, ; and 

 in eight or ten days, after voiding several feet of the worm, 

 they were perfectly restored to their former strength and appear- 

 ance. The vermicular disease, hitherto so formidable to the 

 spaniel and pointer, may therefore in a great measure be fairly 

 attributed to the custom of giving them the intestines of their 

 game, under the technical appellation of " the paunch." The 

 iacts above stated, in explaining the cause of the disease, at the 

 same time suggests the remedy. 



I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 



T. M. Baonold. 



7, High Row^ Knightshridge, 



December 20, 1820. 



III. General Literature. 



1. Classical Manuscripts. — The Abbe Amadeus Peyron, Pro- 

 fessor of oriental languages in the university of Turin, has 

 discovered some fragments of Cicero, in a MS., from the 

 monastery of St. Colomban di Bobbio, a town on the Trebia, 

 in the King of Sardinia's dominions. This MS. contains im- 

 portant new readings of orations already known, and confirms 

 the identity of several texts which have been tortured by indis- 

 creet critics. It contains, besides fragments of the orations, 

 pro Scaur 0, pro M. Tullio in Clodium Orationis, which are un- 

 fortunately lost. Some of these fragments have been already 

 published by M. Mai, after a MS. of the same library at 

 Colomban, preserved in the Ambrosian library at Milan, so 

 that at the first sight these two MSS. would appear to hare 

 originally made but one. But the difference of the writing, 

 that of the parchment, the circumstance that one of these MSS. 

 is written in tnree columns, and the pther in two, as well as 



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