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pelled to renew the ligature, which was more easily adjusted this 
time, from the circumstance of the neck of the polypus having be- 
come more elongated. The tube still remains in the windpipe. 
1 6 th . — I had occasion again to renew the ligature, which I 
effected very easily ; still no signs of any separation taking place. 
Becoming now disappointed in the operation, I resolved, should 
any thing more be required, that I would employ torsion as a means 
of getting rid of the intruder ; so, at my next visit, which was a 
few days afterwards, finding the ligature had again disappeared, 
and now being completely foiled in my proceedings, I at once, and 
without hesitation, proceeded to remove it by the above-mentioned 
means. Using my hand in the place of forceps, I succeeded, with- 
out much difficulty, in twisting the polypus completely off at the 
third turn. My patient coughed a few times, and discharged a 
little blood; but there followed no haemorrhage of any consequence 
from the operation. 
The beast in a very short time began to graze freely. I saw her 
again in a few days. The cough had subsided — the breathing had 
become tranquil — and she evinced every prospect of rapid improve- 
ment. 
At the time of writing this paper she appears as though nothing 
had ever ailed her. She is improving rapidly in condition — from 
having been a mere skeleton — and ere long will be ready to be 
disposed of. 
THE HODDESDON AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTION. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — A t the present time, when so much interest is 
being taken by the Agricultural Societies in the better education 
of the veterinary student, and the more perfectly fitting him to 
become a better practitioner on all domestic animals, will it be 
believed, at this very time, that a system is going on, replete with 
the greatest mischief, fraught with the most disastrous consequences 
to all parties. 
At the Institution near Hoddesdon, Herts., established as a 
model farm, at which young men are, or professed to be, taught 
every thing, there is, amongst other objects, a class on veterinary 
subjects, presided over by the Professor of Cattle Pathology at the 
Royal Veterinary College, London. Are these young men, so 
taught, to be considered as veterinary surgeons, or in what light 
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