COMMUNICATION FROM MR. HAUSTON. 
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diffused, and as willing and ready to labour and toil, until 
the goal of perfection dawns upon our adopted life-task, and 
as ready to share their triumphs as any other, though more 
ostentatious body. 
I have had somewhat striking proofs of how matters stand 
within the last twelve months, and bitterly must every true 
lover of advancement deplore the blindness and paltry pique 
which leads to such grave results. 
I speak not from hearsay, but from w r hat I have seen and 
also read of in your journal. 
I may be in error, if so, the greater part of my fellow 
graduates are in the same dilemma, and I can assure you, 
they would most willingly be put right on the even path, for 
the present one is, to all appearance, mighty desolate. 
In the meantime, I only wish to show those who, perhaps, 
without care for the consequences, strew pebbles behind 
them because the route they now choose appears easy to 
traverse ; but as an old proverb is very useful, and seldom out 
of place, we shall say, “ that people who live in glass houses, 
should never be the first to throw stones/’ 
I should feel much obliged by your insertion of this letter, 
which I hope is not of too great length, for as I think the 
subject is deserving of notice, and likely to do good , no pains 
ought to be spared to achieve that end. 
Yours most truly, 
George Fleming, 
Veterinary Surgeon, 
Military Train. 
COMMENTS ON MR. HORSBURGIFS CASE OF 
CHRONIC NASAL GLEET, PRODUCED 
BY A DISEASED TOOTH. 
By G. Hauston, V.S., Preston Ford, Dalkeith. 
Gentlemen, — Having been a reader of your valuable 
Journal for the last eleven years, I, in looking over the August 
number for this year, observed that Mr. Horsburgh, Veterinary 
Surgeon, Dalkeith, had therein related a case of chronic nasal 
gleet produced by a diseased tooth, which he had cured by 
an operation. My object in addressing you is to show that 
the circumstances connected with this case are not precisely 
the same as described, and therefore I have to request that 
