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ON THE VAPOUR OF AETHER. 
sparing one (and which if it does is the exception to the general 
rule), we cannot but arrive at the conclusion that it possesses a 
highly infectious character. 
It is a disease also which, unless you catch it when there is 
simply a hoose and prior to the secondary symptoms setting in, 
that ill bears any large depletory measures. By the period, in 
general , when a veterinary surgeon is called in, the enemy has got 
full possession of the citadel, and pretty well demolished the inte- 
rior works, so that when our artillery is brought into play he 
laughs us to scorn, and has only left us an external shell to knock 
about his ears. Nor need we wonder at its setting at defiance all 
remedial measures, however skilfully applied, and rapidly assuming 
an asthenic and fatal character, when we consider how very im- 
perfectly the blood undergoes that important change so essential to 
life, by its free and full exposure to the action of the atmosphere, 
and its consequent decarbonizaiion. 
I therefore would, with all due deference to the profession, term 
it typhoid-pneumonia, as one which conveys more accurately its 
essential characters than the one in present use ; and thereby add 
to our nosology a novel disease, which hitherto has not been re- 
cognized in this country : at any rate, it will be a more appro- 
priate term than the one in general use, and serve until some of 
my professional brethren have found a better. 
Newcastle-under-Line, Staffordshire, 
Feb. 16, 1847. 
P.S. In the paper you kindly inserted of mine in the January 
Number this year, I observe an error committed by you, having 
inserted at page 6, line 29, that the inflammation was of a chronic 
character : it should have been of a sthenic or acute character. 
ON THE VAPOUR OF HCTHER. 
EFFECTS OF iETHER ON A KITTEN— ON HIS OWN PERSON — RE- 
MARKS ON SUCH EXPERIMENTS FOLLOWED UP BY WANTON 
CRUELTY — RUMOURS OF STRANGE PROCEEDINGS AT THE 
ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
By Edward Mayhew, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — Shall I be intruding on your space if I again refer to 
the subject mentioned in my last communication I I have since 
tried the aether on another animal. A small kitten was the subject 
