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gation, he dies from inflammation. “ Keeping, therefore,” says 
he, “ these circumstances in mind — knowing how rapidly in- 
flammation may supervene — how insidiously it may creep on — in 
the great majority of cases, if called in sufficiently early, I would 
bleed . I would bleed according to the symptoms of the case, the 
state and the strength of the patient, and the effect produced by 
the loss of blood. No invariable quantity should be abstracted ; 
but, with the finger on the pulse, discretion alone should direct 
the quantity.” 
Few of the leaders of The Veterinarian can imagine with 
what delight this passage was perused by the reviewer. These 
were the rules — and clothed almost in the same words— that 
he used to impress on his pupils — that he was the first to impress 
on the veterinary pupil — 'and among others on this, a favourite 
one, and of whose success in his profession he was always as- 
sured. He urges no claim. Their claims are most loudly and 
imperiously urged whose pretensions are light as air. His high- 
est, his only ambition, was gradually to impress the thoughtful 
mind with the perception of truth, and to influence one and 
another of the future ornaments of his profession, until he should 
be felt silently, powerfully pervading a great part of his humble 
division of literature, humanizing, exalting, enriching it. 
But we refrain. For the author’s treatment of the epide- 
mic, cautious, scientific, successful, we have great pleasure in re- 
ferring to the work itself. It will be highly esteemed by the ve- 
terinary practitioner, and it will be read with interest by the me- 
dical man, and by every one that has to do with horses. 
ARTHRITIS— GOUT— DOES IT EXIST IN 
QUADRUPEDS? 
By M . Ollivier, M.V. St. Marimin. 
A mule, of good size and condition, three years old, and that 
had until lately been used in drawing a cart, being from lame- 
ness no longer able to continue its work, was brought to M. Olli- 
vier, on the 9th of May 1824. It was not without considerable 
difficulty and pain that it could .put its left fore foot to the 
ground. On examining it, M. Ollivier found a decided swelling 
of the flexor tendons at the pastern. He ordered the mule to be 
put into the stable, and, half an hour afterwards, he examined it 
again. There was now nearly the same enlargement, of the pas- 
