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its progress identical with, being marked by, all the phases of that 
destructive malady. 
Racers and hunters being more particularly the subjects, the 
disease must in future, from its importance, occupy a place in our 
nomenclature, and may, perhaps, be designated “ sesamoiditis.” 
The sesamoid most liable to injury is the inner one, in the arti- 
cular cavity, receiving its portion of the lower extremity of the 
large metacarpal bone. 
[To be continued.] 
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
20th October, 1847. 
Sir, — I n your last number there is an anonymous letter from 
“ A Practitioner, 1 ” stating that in January last a young man “entered 
himself as a pupil at the Edinburgh Veterinary College,” and, after 
remaining there about “a week,” he returned home and commenced 
practice. The writer further states, that this individual, after at- 
tending the ensuing session, intends “presenting himself for exa- 
mination for a diploma, as one having attended two sessions;” and 
proceeds to insinuate, somewhat at variance with his former state- 
ments, “ that if a person be allowed to leave the College dubbed a 
veterinary surgeon,” in little better than five months' study, it 
would be a derogation on his (the practitioner’s) part to submit to 
an examination. 
Now, Mr. Editor, I beg through you that the “ Practitioner ” 
will come fairly forward, and, under his real name, point out the 
person to whom he alludes ; or any other individual he can name, 
who has, under circumstances such as he mentions, “been allowed 
to leave the College dubbed a veterinary surgeon.” 
I am, Sir, 
Your’s obediently, 
John Barlow, V.S. 
