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however, are fast healing, and there seems no doubt but that 
under careful watching the horse will yet do well. With refer- 
ence to the medical treatment of this case, it may be noticed, that 
it has chiefly consisted in the continued administration of laxatives, 
in such doses as to keep the faeces in an uniformly soft condition. 
In the one case blisters were applied to the neck, in the other not. 
I shall not at present reply to the communications which appear 
in your last in regard to the number of cases occurring here, and 
the success of the treatment, in order to allow Mr. Fisher and Mr. 
Wells time to shew what right they have to demand from me ANY 
information , or what I owe to the profession ; and Mr. Mayer to 
give his definition of what broken wind is, and what are the symp- 
toms and pathological conditions which give rise to what is called 
“ broken wind,” instead of quoting from Blundeville and others. It 
may be, however, as well to state, that I agree with him, that the 
“ word broken wind is sometimes misused as in such cases as he 
alludes to, which are merely cases of sub-acute inflammation of the 
bronchial membrane, or in the other cases that are combined with 
disease of the heart. When Mr. Mayer has shewn the pathology 
of those cases which give rise to broken wind as a symptom, I 
shall then be able to say whether we are considering the same 
pathological condition or not. 
These lists of cases have been sent you in consequence of 
Messrs. Mayer, Gabriel, and Professor Spooner having reported 
to the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, that 
the practice which the students have an opportunity of seeing 
here is both “ limited and defective” When the report of the 
London College is published, the public will judge where the stu- 
dent can see the most extensive practice. 
If, as it has been insinuated, the reports which I have sent you 
of the cases which have occurred here during the past year, and 
amounting in all to 3543, have acted as advertisements, I have 
only to state that I have considered it an imperative duty to send 
them, in consequence of the statements made by the gentlemen 
already alluded to in their report to the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
I am, dear Sirs, your’s truly, 
William Dick. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
