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had had it well fomented and poulticed, but got no better. On 
examination, I found the hock joint opened on the inner side, and 
synovia escaping in very large quantities. I had the part well 
washed with water, and then applied pulv. hyd. bichlorid. to the 
wound, at the same time taking great care that no particle should 
get into the cavity of the joint. I then took a little more of the 
pulv. bichlorid., with some tow and new yeast, and applied 
to the wound, and bandaged the hock with some calico, i did 
not remove the dressing for six days, and was surprised to find the 
joint closed, and no escape of synovia. 
I afterwards applied a little tinct. myrrh and tinct. benz. to the 
wound, and the parts healed and did well ; but the hock remained 
much swollen and very weak for five or six weeks, and at times 
the horse had very great pain. I then blistered the hock, which 
relieved the horse very much : at the end of a month I fired 
him, and the horse has become as sound as any horse in Yorkshire, 
and never shewn any symptoms of lameness since. I have had 
two other cases, which have done equally as well with the same 
plan of treatment. If you think the case worth room in your 
valuable Periodical, by giving it insertion you will oblige, &c. 
A SECOND LETTER ON PROFESSOR DICK’S 
PRACTICE. 
From Samuel Fisher, V.S. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
I am sorry thus again to trouble your columns in prompting Pro- 
fessor Dick to a duty he owes the profession. I had thought the age 
of empiricism was fast waning into oblivion, — that a secret mode 
of treating disease was now considered unworthy of any corporate 
and scientific body entertaining a sense of professional etiquette ; 
having journals the value of which I conceive to originate in the 
fact, that any member discovering an improved mode of treating 
disease, might, through these media, enlighten the profession, 
thereby enhance the science, and make the professors of that science 
worthy of the confidence the public are willing to repose in them. 
In Professor Dick’s reply to my last, he states the information I 
