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 aggravated indeed which is beyond relief. The 

 cure, however, we must not expect to be quick ; but 

 it will generally in the end be realized. Perseve- 

 rance may be required, but barbarity will not hasten 

 success. I object to many of the practices which 

 the veterinary professors of the London College in- 

 culcate to their pupils ; because those practices, in 

 my opinion, being based on false principles, are need- 

 lessly severe. Of the potent solutions habitually 

 employed at the St. Pancras School, I have spoken ; 

 but there is another practice to which I have not 

 alluded : corks are forcibly thrust into the holes 

 made by the trephine, under the notion that by 

 such means the opening can be kept free, and the 

 wound uncorked and corked up like the mouth of a 

 bottle. Mr. Percival has spared me the trouble of 

 exposing the folly of the idea, and the inutility 

 of the practice. That gentleman tried the notable 

 experiment, and found that the cork in no degree 

 delayed the consequence it was employed to retard. 

 The presence of a foreign body thrust into imme- 

 diate connexion with a diseased surface, and violently 

 there retained, must cause excruciating agony — pro- 

 mote serious irritation — and might lead to the worst 



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