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Dick, and he certified to that effect. What, then, is meant by the 
statement, that every facility was afforded for their production, 
and that they have not been produced] The main object of the 
Charter being to ensure proper examinations, surely when we had 
undergone our examination by the Council’s examiners, and re- 
ported by them to be duly qualified, and having paid our fees, we 
are entitled to our diplomas ; and the withholding them is, I con- 
tend, an act of gross injustice on the part of the Council, whatever 
Mr. W. A. Cherry may assert in their behalf. 
Further, I have reason to believe that, in the case of one of 
their friends, the bye-laws have not been so strictly enforced, where 
their application was quite proper. 
I remain, dear Sirs, 
Your’s truly. 
September 15, 1846. 
REMARKS ON AUSCULTATION. 
By W. Arthur Cherry, V.S. 
In the following remarks, I wish to draw attention to a very 
important subject, and one which, though practised by a few, is 
still not carried to the extent, or with that degree of minuteness, 
of which it is deserving — I mean “ auscultation.” Every one 
with whom I have conversed on the subject, and who has in any 
way adopted it, has admitted its importance, and its value as a 
diagnostic agent. 
I know not a disease of either the thoracic or abdominal viscera 
in which the evidence afforded by “ auscultation” is not, either 
directly or indirectly, of the most important and valuable kind. 
I say “ indirectly,” because, through its agency, when we are certain 
that abdominal disease is existent, we are, to a great degree, able 
to ascertain what organs may not be affected, and thus very much 
contract our field of diagnosis. As, for instance, an animal is 
brought under treatment for a disease productive of great pain, 
similar to what arises from common cholic. By comparing the 
sound originating in the vermicular action of the intestines in a state 
of health with that perceptible in the animal under examination, 
we can tell whether the intestines themselves are the seat of 
the malady, which would be direct evidence ; or, supposing the 
sound they give to be normal, we may be pretty certain that the 
