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and symptoms, and terminations, and post-mortem appearances 
of this disease, are highly creditable to him. 
When the debate ensued — if our readers will take the trouble 
to examine the history which is given by him, and his opponents, 
of the reasons why young horses are more subject to it than 
older ones ; why it is of more frequent occurrence in large towns 
than in country practice ; the kind of work, and the form of the 
horse which most predispose to it ; the constitutional impression 
which it makes on the horse, and its connexion with his future 
soundness; more particularly, if they will con over the beautiful 
account which is given of the pulse of the horse labouring under 
pneumonia ; the graphically accurate speaking distinction that is 
drawn between this disease and another with which it is so often 
confounded, — catarrhal fever ; if they will duly estimate the cau- 
tions against too great reliance on the appearance of the blood, 
and the delineation of those circumstances which may be de- 
pended on as safe and sure guides ; the explanation of the rigor 
of pneumonia ; the debate as to the power of digitalis in this 
disease, and the caution with which it should be administered ; 
the true nature and indication of the intermittent pulse; and 
the question as to the power of the tartarized antimony — if they 
will pay even a slight and superficial attention to these things, they 
will be convinced that the debate was worthy of the Association, 
and cannot fail of being useful to those who were present at it, 
and to the profession at large. Putting entirely out of the ques- 
tion the little, the very little share which the writer of this article 
had in the debate of the second evening, he must say that, of 
discussions like these, he, and those who have the interest of the 
Association and the profession at heart, are truly proud. They 
afford us a presage of what these meetings and the profession at 
large will hereafter become. “ L’esprit est une plante dont on ne 
sauroit arreter le vegetation , sans lefaire perir.” 
Perhaps the perfection of such a meeting — “ aut nunquam 
tentes, aut peijice ” — maybe secured and hastened, if its members 
will lend themselves zealously to such a cause. The practitioners 
of the metropolis ! — could they not a little oftener come among 
us ? They would be welcomed to their hearts’ content. A few of 
