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have before given, viz. the great uncertainty of ether as a depress- 
ing agent. All our best veterinary practitioners fully agree with 
Mr. Henderson’s views and my own. The surgical profession are 
ceasing to employ it, finding that the ratio of deaths is increased 
by its exhibition, and such must inevitably be its results in our 
practice. Nevertheless, I am glad to see that the observations are 
pursued, and shall be delighted to hear with success ; but I fear it 
will prove only a hope. 
With every kindly feeling towards Mr. Olden, and wishing him 
all possible success, only trusting to his candour to inform us when 
— if ever — he ceases to place confidence in his agent, I beg leave 
to subscribe myself, 
Your obedient servant, 
Arthur Cherry. 
June 17, 1847. 
P.S. I may state that no description or drawings of the dif- 
ferent kinds of apparatus employed were given, because it was 
the wish of the inventor that it should not be done ; and further, 
we felt that the making public imperfect instruments would be 
unfair towards inventors and injurious to the public. Mr. Read’s 
apparatus, with the proper modifications, and not in any way in- 
terfering with the principle on which it was constructed, is by very 
far the best; more compact, more efficient, requiring less ether, and 
less liable to be out of order. 
[The lateness of its arrival, prevented our assigning to this 
communication an earlier place in the present number. — Print .] 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
A Register of Experiments, Anatomical, Physiological, 
AND PATHOLOGICAL, disclosing a new and striking fact, demon- 
strative of a (probable) Universal Principle pervading the Human 
Organization and all Animal Life, not hitherto expounded by 
Comparative Anatomists and Teachers of Human Physiology. 
By James Turner, V.S., Regent Street, London. Part III, 
pp. 21. Longman, 1847. 
With singular periodic precision has Mr. Turner proclaimed his 
third appearance “ in the same character like one of the planets, 
he has completed his revolution punctually to his time. It was, 
