NORTH COUNTRY PRESCRIPTION. 
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sion mixed with flakes of pus. Lungs nearly all absorbed, and 
the remnant of them putrid, and adherent to the ribs : pleura cos- 
talis highly injected. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your’s, respectfully, &c. 
November 15th, 1848. 
NORTH COUNTRY PRESCRIPTION. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — As a counterpart to your “ Ostler’s Account,” given in 
the last Number of “ The Veterinarian,” I inclose a veritable 
recipe lately sent in to a respectable druggist by an individual 
who has not long since given up his other avocations to devote 
his time exclusively to the doctoring of horses and cattle. I sub- 
join, for the sake of the printer, what I believe to be a literal 
rendering : — 
Ameiked tartr 1 and a half Dram 
row Barb 1 Dram 
Shougr lid 1 ouz 
Contreted vniger 2 Gills. 
If such be a sample of what may be called a favourable North- 
country specimen of that class which Mr. Cherry proposes raising 
up with his registration lever, no wonder that many of the regu- 
larly certified members of the profession wince at being made 
fulcra for such a purpose. 
Your’s, truly, 
W. Cuming, V.S. 
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, 
11th Nov. 1848. 
CURIOUS CASE OF INCURABLE LAMENESS AND 
DISEASE FROM THE PRESENCE OF HYDATIDS. 
By J. P. Vincent, M.R.C.V.S., Devizes. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — In the January number of this year’s VETERINARIAN, a 
ease is published of entozoa, discovered within a cyst under the 
synovial membrane of the flexor perforans tendon of the 'fore leg 
of a young cart-horse, occasioning excessive lameness; also of 
