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fideiitly assured that snch operations being 

 performed, " after opening the cavities should 

 '* it by probing be discovered that the bones 

 '' are carious (or, in other words, rotten), the 

 '' best M^ay then will be to dispatch the horse, 

 ^' to save unnecessary trouble and expense/* 

 I cannot resist the temptation I feel to trans- 

 pose this language^ and display it in plain 

 English thus. In fact, deprive the horse of 

 half his head, in compliment to the peciiniafy 

 feelings of the farrier, and if you find the re- 

 maining half will not answer the purpose of 

 the whole, cut his throat, or shoot him 

 through the head, to save the operator's credit. 

 Previous to the serious investigation of this 

 case, I must beg permission (in imitation of 

 my learned predecessor II. Bracken, M. D.) 

 to introduce a second story not altogether in- 

 applicable to this complicated chapter upon 

 heads. - , 



A certain chemist having dedicated much 

 time, trouble, and expense, to the preparation 

 ^of a balsamic elixir, brought it at last to so 

 great a degree of perfection, that it would, 

 upon the first application, instantaneousljr 

 incarnate, cicatrize, and cure a wound of the 



