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FIRING FOR SPAVIN. 
And when I perused the opening lines of his communication, 
approving and commending me, how could I imagine that his in- 
tention was to inflict his “deep cautery lesions” upon myself] 
It is to me unaccountable how my friend can misconstrue my 
language into “ writing down” the operation of firing. There is 
but one single quotation he has made from my papers that will 
bear any such-like construction, and that quotation he has, by 
putting words in italics which in the original stood in roman, 
distorted from my meaning into his own. 
Mr. T.'s version of Mr. P.'s text. Mr. P.'s own version of his text. 
“ I am very much inclined to the “ I am very much inclined to the 
belief that the success derived from belief that the success derived from 
deep firing and blistering is, in a mea- deep firing and blistering is, in a mea- 
sure, ascribable to the extremely sore sure , ascribable to the extremely sore 
and rigid condition of the skin,” &c. and rigid condition of the skin,” &c. 
And this my friend calls my “ extraordinary version of the 
modus operandi of deep firing.” Indeed, it would be “ extraordi- 
nary,” and ridiculous as well, had I, who pretend to write on such 
a subject as firing, nothing lengthier or better to offer by way of 
modus operandi than a sentence like this ] It so happens, how- 
ever, that my veritable modus was actually in print before my 
friend’s comments were put to press, and that both appeared, for- 
tunately for me, in the same number of The Veterinarian. 
Surely, he will not say, after having perused my paper for last 
month, that I had any intention of “ writing down” firing. 
My friend’s “ astounding fact” about the lame spavined horse, 
after having been fired on his “ improved method,” getting up 
and “ trotting off free from lameness,” requires but a trifling addi- 
tion, and that is PROOF. I am put in mind by it of Mrs. Glass’s 
directions, about first “ catch your hare;” in accordance with which 
wholesome counsel, I say, first prove pour fact , and then I will 
endeavour to analyse it. 
CURIOUS CASE OF VOLVULUS ILEI. 
By W. J. GOODWIN, M.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Queen. 
One of Her Majesty’s road carriage horses was seized at the 
Royal Mews, Windsor, early on Sunday morning last (Nov. 1st, 
1846), with what appeared to be a violent fit of colic. My 
assistant lost no time in administering the usual treatment I pur- 
sue in such cases; but as it afforded no relief, a messenger 
