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REMARKS ON THE EFFECTS OF MERCURY. 
By the same. 
In all idiopathic and specific fevers, it is my invariable practice 
to bring the system under the influence of mercury, by the ex- 
hibition of calomel or hydr. cum creta, in small doses frequently 
repeated; and I always date my patients’ convalescence from the 
time that the influence of the mercury becomes apparent. Of 
course, any local mischief that may be present is to be combated 
according to circumstances. It is a well known fact, that if an 
attack of measles supervenes during the progress of smallpox, or 
vice versa , the one gives way to the other. Now, I firmly 
believe that in a somewhat similar way mercury removes fevers. 
Does mercury produce a specific action in the system to which the 
febrile action gives way 1 I believe that it does. If my theory is 
correct, it produces a diathesis that is incompatible with the action 
of fever, or rather it superinduces that which (for want of better 
name) I term mercurial action, to which the primary fever gives way. 
I never push this mercurial action beyond that point in which the 
gums and breath are slightly affected. I have never met with any 
bad consequences resulting from this administration of mercurials to 
horses, cows, or dogs. 
Llanwrst, Nov. 11, 1846. 
THE MEMORIAL. 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey , Secretary of Slate 
for the Home Department. 
The Memorial of the President and Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Sir,' — The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
being fully aware that application has been made for a new Charter 
to grant authority over the veterinary profession, respectfully ad- 
dress you, honourable Sir, in the hope of explaining their motives, 
laying before you a statement of what they have done, and what 
they are endeavouring to do. 
When it pleased Her Majesty, by the issue of the present 
Charter, graciously to accede to the humble prayer of the members 
of the veterinary profession, in which prayer all the professors and 
practitioners equally joined, and against which no voice was raised, 
