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ment # . Unfortunately, it is too often the case that, if the san- 
guine expectations of the practitioner be not at once realized, the 
agent is discarded as useless. Now these agents rank amongst 
those whose operation is slow, but which, at the same time, con- 
stitute an important class, as their effects are abiding.” 
This little book contains a sample of the more practical part 
of the lectures on Chemistry and Pharmacy which Mr. Morton 
is in the habit of delivering at the College. One word, and one 
word only, to those whom it may concern — Do not these lectures 
deserve a little larger and a little more convenient room for their 
delivery than they at present obtain ? They would not disgrace it. 
Another last word ! We have in the work before us a most 
useful companion for the laboratory and the pharmacy. Re- 
taining “ Percivall’s Anatomy,” as an invaluable book of refer- 
ence, there is another desideratum, a pocket manual, yet not 
too small either, of equine, and somewhat of comparative ana- 
tomy for the dissecting-room. There is a gentleman competent, 
fully so, to the task, on whom the eyes of the profession are 
fixed. He has earned many laurels — he has others to reap ; — 
but we dare not — we have no right — to say another word. 
. 
Mwellmca, 
Cruel Exactions of Strength and Speed. 
We trust that there will be, as there was in England, sufficient 
good feeling on the continent to discountenance, and altogether 
put down, those matches against time for long distances which 
were, some time ago, becoming the disgrace of the former coun- 
try. We insert, with much regret, some late cruel proceedings 
abroad. 
A match was made on the possibility of a horse being ridden 
by the same groom from Paris to Rouen, a distance of thirty-one 
leagues, in seven hours. 
A little groom, thirteen years old, named David, weighing with 
his saddle and boots sixty-three pounds, started at 2 o’clock in 
the morning on the selected horse, from La Place Louis XV. He 
was accompanied by another jockey, named Hawes, who was 
to change horses every five leagues. He arrived at Mesnil- 
Esnard, a league from Rouen, having an hour and thirteen mi- 
* But I fear we must not have recourse to the aid of the mild mercurial 
ointment, and, least of all, the cantharides or the tartar emetic. — Y. 
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