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vagi (though the function is not destroyed) , an effect which 
must apparently be attributed to the alteration in quantity 
of the secretion — the only known change in the action of the 
stomach caused by the operation. [The results obtained 
from these experiments confirm in a most marked manner 
those of Dr. Reid* and also those made by Muller and 
Dickhoff on geese. It is, however, somewhat remarkable, 
that in a series of experiments performed by Bernard exactly 
opposite results were arrived at to those mentioned above. 
It is stated by this distinguished physiologist, that after 
division of the pneumogastric nerves in the middle of the 
neck, the movements of the stomach ceased, the secretion of 
the gastric juice was instantaneously put a stop to, and in no 
case did any part of the food pass through the peculiar 
changes of chymification. For a detailed review of the 
chemistry of the digestive process, I beg to refer my readers 
to the article on the <£ Chemistry of Digestion/ 5 p. 167, where 
the late very elaborate investigations of Bernard, Bidder, and 
Schmidt, and their pupils, are succinctly set forth .] — The 
British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review , July . 
THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1854. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Ere our cavalry come to leave their own country — a 
country abounding in the best of provender of all sorts, as well 
as in shoeing forges, shoeing-smiths, and horse-shoes of all 
descriptions — for one in which such requisites are scarce, in 
some parts, perhaps, altogether wanting, it may not be unde- 
sirable for us (who have been ourselves campaigning in our 
time) to make a few cursory remarks on the provision and 
preparation requisite to be made on that essential part of the 
furniture of a horse, yclept a horse-shoe . At one of the 
veterinary anniversary dinners (which in former times were 
in the habit of being held annually in honour of such teachers 
and lecturers as acted as examiners of, and threw open 
their schools gratuitously to, veterinary pupils) it was play- 
fully observed by that polished gentleman and eminent master 
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