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case as this ; but a case of the white-swelling class — a case 
of ulceration within the joint, as well as ossification with- 
out — a case which resists all the treatment of the professional 
man : cure such a case as this, we say to Mr. Major, and we 
will show ourselves among the first and foremost to give 
your “ Remedy” its meed of commendation. 
For saying so much, however, we run great risk of being 
laughed at by Veterinary surgeons, who will naturally 
ask us, if we suppose that such lesions of the joint, inside 
and outside, be ever — admit of the possibility of being — 
restored to their normal conditions, so as to become the 
identical tissues they originally were. It is possibly this 
consideration — and it constitutes a tolerably strong defence 
— which makes medical men so averse to listening to any 
reports or stories about “ cures ” for this or for that, when 
they all the time know full well, that the disease or stage of 
disease stated to have been “ cured” by the vaunted remedy, 
is out of the pale of possibility of normal restoration, let the 
means employed have been what they may. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Quarterly Meeting or Council, April 6th, 1853. 
Present : Messrs. Cherry, Henderson, Silvester, Stockley, Pro- 
fessors Simonds and Morton, and the Secretary. 
Mr. Stockley in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and 
signed, 
Messrs. South and Broad were, on the motion of Mr. Gabriel , 
seconded by Mr. Silvester , appointed to audit the Accounts of the 
past year. 
Prof. Morton and Mr. Wilkinson were appointed to assist the 
Secretary in drawing up the “ Abstract ” to be presented at the 
Annual Meeting. 
The Treasurer presented the Annual Balance Sheet. The expenses 
amounted to £262 9s. 8 d., and the receipts to £665 9s. 4c?., 
leaving a balance of £102 19s. 8c?. 
Mr. Cherry drew attention to an alleged error in the accounts of 
the College from 1846 to 1849, amounting to £62 2s. He then 
gave notice that he would bring forward the following motion : 
