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this would appear to mean that enquirers, (who, having 

 taken the trouble to ask, presumably want the truth), 

 need not be told the truth. On the other hand it may 

 only be the subtle beginning of a policy of scientific 

 reform, having for its object the abolition of post 

 mortem examinations, and the consequent natural 

 decay of pathological laboratories as being useless 

 nests of misguided learning. If so the ulterior result 

 should certainly be the canonization of our " science 

 doctor" by future generations of emancipated medical 

 and veterinar}' students. 



There is another gratifying fact that deserves a 

 chronicle. A remedy which has for some few years 

 been recommended by the same scientific authority for 

 certain symptoms, (notably the vomiting of sop by 

 Parrots through their nostrils !), under the name of 

 Glyco-thermoline, has lately been correctly spelled 

 Glyco-thymoline. As I said before, this is gratifying. 

 It not only materially influences the pronunciation of 

 the word when the healing balm is enquired for at the 

 druggist's, but it indicates the important fact that we 

 have at last some acquaintance with the outside of 

 the bottle. 



Thus does "science" leap with seven league 

 boots! In the fulness of time we ma}' yet learn the 

 inside of the bottle, and when we come to be com- 

 pletely freed from the trammels of pathology we may 

 even know the inside of the bird. 



W. Geo. Creswei.1.. 



