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authority either to examine for or to grant diplomas 1 Instead of 
ameliorating their former condition, as uncertificated ssudents, they 
have absolutely made it worse. In having taken such a course, 
they have shut themselves out from the incorporated body of the 
profession ; and so long as they persist in such an irregular pro- 
ceeding they must remain excluded — unacknowledged by their 
own profession, unrecognised by the law, unrespected by the 
public. In a word, they are, to all intents and purposes, pro- 
fessional/?/ outlawed. We, therefore, entreat them, ere too much 
time fly away — while yet their memories are fresh with the know- 
ledge they have gained at “ College” — to reconsider the business; 
to retrace the steps they have made in error or thoughtlessness; 
and to come without delay, and offer themselves for examination 
before the legalized Board of Examiners. It is true they will have 
to pay, in addition to what they may have already paid, their ten 
guineas each ; but what is the consideration of such a sum com- 
pared with the disadvantages they actually labour under, added to 
the aspersions they will lay themselves open to have cast upon 
them during a long career of professional practice 1 To conclude, 
we say again to those individuals, “ Strike the iron while it is 
hot ;” let not the sun go down upon your present state of unrecog- 
nition and exclusion. 
Mr. Leach’s case of “ coma in a horse,” the result of “ two 
tumours and a large quantity of serum in the lateral ventricles,” 
while it is interesting on account of its rarity, is valuable to us 
for the pathological chain of connexion traceable all the way 
through between the symptoms during life and the strange appear- 
ances presented after death. Mr. Leach, from the symptoms 
present when he was called in, and from what he had been able to 
learn of the history of the case — a point in all similar cases of such 
vast import — sagaciously anticipated organic changes in the brain, 
and framed his prognosis accordingly ; thus putting it out of the 
power of his employer to entertain hopes of recovery, while in his 
own mind he had come to a tolerably correct notion of what he 
should find, in case of death, and the whereabouts of the proximate 
cause of the coma. The tumour Mr. Leach has sent us — for which 
we return him our best thanks — is about the size of a large filberd, 
