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yourself, could have done no more. I bled him heavily three 
times, blistered his sides very extensively, and got his bowels 
well opened : indeed, he purged well up to his death. The 
inflammation was too strong — nothing could get beyond it !” 
What other result could the veterinary surgeon have expected 
from all this bleeding, blistering, and purging, in a bad case 
of influenza ? But my clever friend was quite satisfied he had 
done the very best under all the circumstances. The prin- 
ciples of such practice are certainly rather more active, but 
they are no worse in theory than that of the practitioner of 
forty years’ standing who prescribes lime water in a case of 
stone. 
Miserable spirit of infatuation ! Mighty Moloch of Em- 
piricism, 
“ That moves unchecked, and triumphs in the sun.” 
Thine is, indeed, a shrine of blood, and thy victims are num- 
berless. Much dost thou exact from thy worshippers, and 
much, indeed, do they pay thee. Property, wealth, yea ! life 
itself. Vainly does science preach, and vainly is the light of 
truth shed abroad. Ignorance still counts her millions on 
British soil, and these are they who kneel at thy altar, and 
prostrate themselves beneath the wheels of thy car ! But to 
resume. 
Having explained to my employer the serious nature of the 
disease with which we had to contend, I prescribed Acid. 
Hydrochlor. 3ij. to be administered daily in cold water, and 
requested that I should be allowed to see my patient again in 
the course of the following week. On the fourth of the next 
month an opportunity was afforded me of examining him a 
second time, which I was now able to do more carefully 
even than at first. The general symptoms appeared to be 
somewhat alleviated, but the calculus was still perceptible 
per rectum , in the same situation as before, immovable, and 
firmly impacted somewhere near the bladder. Careful con- 
sideration now led me to surmise that the seat of the concre- 
tion might probably be one of the ureters, rather than the 
urethra as I had at first supposed ; and a more minute in- 
vestigation rendered this view of the case tolerably clear, as 
the ureter on the left side could be distinctly felt considerably 
thickened throughout its entire course. As this solution, 
however, did not sufficiently explain the very great difficulty 
experienced by the animal in the act of staling, I now care- 
fully examined the urethra throughout its whole length, and 
discovered, in the penal portion of the canal, and near the 
glans, a second calculus apparently about the same shape 
