PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 149 
we hesitate not to express our conviction, that nux vomica 
was the poisoning agent. The symptoms, as stated by 
Mr. Lewis to have been present, would also lead to the 
same conclusion. 
We heartily join with him in the strongest condemnation 
of the practice of placing poison in such places as woods, 
preserves, &c., for the destruction of “ vermin,” since these 
alone may not be destroyed by it, and of this a proof was 
given in our last number. It may not be that our fellow- 
creatures would thus become affected, as the flesh employed 
for the purpose would rarely if ever be fit for food. Or 
should it be, as it was in this case, that a part of a rabbit or 
a hare is used, it would be washed, &c., before cooked : still 
it is too great a risk to be run. Dogs and other useful 
animals certainly may be thus accidentally killed, while the 
so-called vermin, such as weasels, polecats, &c., might 
escape. To lessen the number of these last-named animals, 
various other means may be resorted to, and which are not 
open to the serious objection of poisoning, and with these most 
keepers are perfectly familiar.] 
Contemporary Progress of Veterinary Science 
and Art. 
By John Gamgee, 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. 
( Continued from p. 82 .) 
PANCREATIC SECRETION. 
The structure of the salivary and pancreatic glands being 
identical, anatomists have always considered the latter as 
forming part of the salivary apparatus, and most physiologists 
or chemists have recognised no difference in the composition 
and uses of the fluid poured into the mouth and that of the 
pancreas poured into the duodenum. Bernard was induced 
to experiment on the latter secretion from having observed 
that fatty matters passed on unchanged through the stomach; 
and that in the rabbit, whose pancreatic duct opens on the 
mucous surface of the intestine, at eight or ten inches beyond 
the biliary duct, fat was modified only beyond the seat 
