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be taking bis last gasp. I seized a tin saucepan, knocked off 
the handle, and introduced it into the windpipe : this, of course, 
immediately relieved his breathing. 
A similar case happened about the same time at Mr. Lihou’s: 
the handle of an iron saucepan answered equally well. The 
former horse was killed about two years ago, being quite worn 
out; the latter is still living, and well. 
Perhaps you will permit me to add, while on this head, that I 
could have wished that some general directions had been given 
by the assembly of practitioners that took place on the reading of 
the Professor’s paper in 1836. This might, I think, have recon- 
ciled the various opinions that then prevailed as to the propriety 
or impropriety of bleeding; I mean the exertion of due observa- 
tion and careful pressure of the finger on the artery. If undue 
pressure is applied when the pulse is very weak, and from 80 to 
100 or more, 1 have found a tolerably full pulse of 40 or 50, and 
so on. For my own part, I cannot say I have ever found any 
bad consequences result from bleeding at the commencement of 
disease; but of more than a hundred cases that occurred during 
the past year, 1842, I bled only two, and lost none. 
[To be continued.] 
ON MR. FIELD’S VAPOUR BATH. 
By Mr. James Anderson, V.S. 
Gentlemen, — The old proverb, “ It is a good horse that 
never stumbles,” is verified by the compositor in my communi- 
cation in your last Number, page 6- He hath stumbled over 
“ Quantity of Nitrogen in certain Foods:” This should have been 
inserted as a 7th line, and heading the Table of Alimentary Prin- 
ciples. The reader is requested to enter the above omission with 
a pen in the proper place. 
To err is human, to forgive divine — 
The printer’s devil at Christmas gets some wine. 
In reference to Mr. Field’s vapour bath for horses: for the last 
fourteen years I have employed the vapour bath in human prac- 
tice, also to dogs, &c. I have used warm air, camphor, aether, 
opium, tar, chlorine, and sulphur, &c. (sulphur and other minerals 
cannot be raised with vapour, they requiring a dry or fumigating 
