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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
tending for about eight inches along the middle region of the throat 
on the left side, which partially yielded to pressure, but could not 
be forced either up or down by external friction. Gruel and oil 
were for a short time tried ; but as the case demanded immediate 
relief, their use was not persevered in for any great length of time. 
Still considerable doubt existed as to the propriety of using the 
probang, as it was probable the impacted food, which appeared to 
be grass, might be forced into a more compact mass by using that 
instrument. The round small end was, however, passed, the horse 
standing, and pushing some of the food along, and forcing the tube 
through the rest. By care, and the subsequent administration of 
gruel, all obstruction was effectually overcome, and the horse rapidly 
and perfectly recovered. 
Cases of disease among animals kept in the Royal Zoological 
Gardens, although not introduced into any of the reports, occasionally 
occur. Among the rest, as the most recent, may be mentioned 
that of a young lion labouring under great constitutional debility, 
and suffering also from the existence of an encysted tumour in the 
neck. Although his condition was evidently a discouraging one, 
still, being a valuable animal, it was resolved to try the effect of 
treatment in his case, which it is satisfactory to say has been so far 
successful as to induce the hope that he will ultimately recover. 
As was already stated, although human patients are not enu- 
merated in the reports, or considered as patients, during the 
month medicine has been applied for in a case of ringworm in the 
head of a child, and which was cured. A medical gentleman in Leith 
has reported that he had cured thirty cases in three weeks of the 
same disease in a charity-school, by using the remedy we are in the 
habit of employing in our patients, and which was suggested to him 
as one likely to succeed in overcoming this frequently intractable 
disease in the human being. 
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
My dear Sir, — I n the “Mark Lane Express” of July 7th 
instant, an editorial reply appeared to a letter, which I deemed 
absolutely necessary to send to that journal, in reference to certain 
assertions and statements that had therein appeared on 2d June 
ultimo, against the examinations of the Edinburgh Veterinary 
College, in 1844. 
These statements, and my reply, have already been inserted in 
the last number of The Veterinarian ; but as the editor of the 
