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SEQUEL TO THE CASE OF LAMENESS. 
knowledge of principles on those subjects which are of essential 
importance ; it being understood that the schools are in the con- 
dition to teach what is requisite. 
January 12, 1847. 
SEQUEL TO THE CASE OF LAMENESS. 
By E. N. Gabriel, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
It was not until the most decided opinion had been reiterated 
again and again, that the slightest appearance of improvement had 
not taken place, and that the case was altogether a perfectly hope- 
less one, that the kind and considerate owner of the bay horse, 
whose case was related in the last number, would consent to his 
old servant being destroyed : it was, however, decided on after 
another week’s trial, and within an hour after his death I attended 
to the post-mortem examination. 
After the abdominal and pelvic viscera had been removed, I 
commenced a careful dissection of the hip joint ; and could the 
young aspirants to our profession — ay, thanks to the Charter, we 
may so designate it without meeting with a sneer or a curl of the 
lip, now — have felt with what ease and gratification 1 went through, 
so many years later in life, the oft-repeated task of the dissecting- 
room, they would make themselves as familiar with the scalpel as, 
to my great annoyance, I perceived from the polluted state of the 
atmosphere on a recent visit to the lecture-room, they are with 
their filthy pieces of clay and sottish screws of tobacco. Ten 
minutes sufficed to shew that “ we three merry men all,” but too 
truly in this case more merry than wise, were all in the wrong ; that 
we three, at least Clines, Coopers, or Listons — we must go to our 
sister profession for an illustration, for, alas ! I know not the name 
in our own, standing out as a “ bright particular star,” that could 
have conveyed an equally appropriate idea of what we thought 
ourselves — were all mistaken. The only consolation we had was, — 
although it is really too bad on such a subject to go back to childish 
days and childish games for an illustration, but then children and 
fools speak the truth, it is said ; and if they do so but half as often 
as wise men miss doing so, well do they deserve the praise — the 
only consolation, I say, was, that we were “ burning;” in other 
words, if we had not discovered the actual seat of the injury, we 
were very close upon it, “ mais re venous a nos moutons.” 
