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over such tumours and other diseased parts : the motive he had 
principally in view, in his warm recommendations of such 
practice, being no less a one than the abolition of the use of 
the firing-iron, which he decried as inhuman and barbarous, 
and withal unnecessary. Many years ago also the Professor 
conceived that he had discovered a fresh cause for roaring in 
a diseased state of a part he named the tracheal muscle , of 
which he was in the habit of presenting to pupils at the 
College copies of an engraving he had had made of his 
discovery. We must not forget to mention here, likewise, 
his assumed discovery of a u cure for glanders” in the virtues 
of Sulphate of Copper ; though it be one, we apprehend, in 
which but little reliance is placed by the profession at the 
present day. In 1819 he was successful in an operation for 
lithotomy, the case of which will be found recorded by 
Professor Morton in his * Essay on Calculous Concretions:’ 
he also essayed the operation of lithotrity. 
Mr. Sewell succeeded the late Mr. Youatt as President of 
the old Veterinary Society, and subsequently was elected 
President of the Veterinary Association, of which, at the 
decease of Professor Coleman, he became “ Patron.” The 
only work* he ever published consisted of a c Report’ made 
to the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College of a visit 
he undertook, at their desire, in 1818, to the principal ecoles 
velerinaires of the Continent. 
With this brief, — might one not say, in some respects, 
pleasing? — sketch of our departed Professor’s professional 
life, the writer would close this notice of one who was no 
man’s enemy, and who did his best, with his head and his 
heart, and, he may add, his purse, towards the promotion 
of a science to which he was solely, singly, and ardently 
devoted, passing by all attractions and diversions in pursuit 
of his own favourite handicraft. He was a close and acute 
observer of a horse’s good and bad qualities, defects and 
deformities, and was sought after as such by those who 
knew him best among the subscribers to the College. Lat- 
terly, however, owing to his great age and to occasional 
infirmity, he acted in the Institution almost solely as di- 
rector of the general concerns of the College; there having, 
of late years, come into office, one by one as it were. Pro- 
fessors under him, young men — men full of ability and zeal 
for the performance of the several offices allotted to them. 
Professor Sewell was 72 years of age at his death; Professor 
Coleman, 7L The latter was interred at St. James’s Chapel, 
St. Pancras ; the former, at the Highgate Cemetery. 
* A work was announced, by advertisement, treating on the cure of the 
‘ T uberculous Disease/ meaning * Glanders / but it never appeared. 
