ON THE REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
501 
By way of giving my humble opinion as a country practitioner, I 
thought I could not do better than send you the above case, one 
that occurred in my practice during the month of July last. It 
commenced as a common case of influenza, as which I treated it. 
On the third day the mare was decidedly suffering from pleurisy, 
conjointly with influenza : then came the question, to bleed or not to 
bleed. I stuck to my usual mode of attack, viz., calomel, c. iodid. 
potass. ; and the result has strengthened my conviction that the non- 
bleeding practice (to use your own words) will succeed the best. 
This is an opinion I have held for years. It is, I can assure you, 
gratifying to see similar ideas upheld by such high authority as 
the talented Editor of our valuable Journal, The Veterinarian. 
Many are the cases wherein animals have sunk, in my opinion, 
from nothing but using the lancet too freely , particularly those of 
young fat horses. 
An under farm servant took from his master’s barn, last Friday, 
a quantity of wheat, and gave it to the working horses. Two died 
on the following day, and a third is now suffering from laminitis. 
I remain, Sir, 
Faithfully your’s, 
H. Hutchinson. 
ON THE REPORT TO THE COUNCIL CONCERNING 
THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY BOARD 
OF EXAMINATION. 
Edinburgh, August 14 th, 1850. 
Mr. Editor, Sir, — M y object in addressing to you at this pre- 
sent time a few brief remarks, is in consequence of the Report in 
last month’s VETERINARIAN of the Proceedings of the Council of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In regard to the De- 
putation sent to the Edinburgh Board of Examiners, I, as a member 
of that Board, feel an interest in the motion come to on the 17th of 
July. At the Quarterly Meeting held on 25th June, Mr. Tyndal 
in the Chair, the report of the Deputation to Edinburgh was read 
by the Secretary. It goes on to state that the Board acting for 
Scotland is at present short by three members, &c. Now the 
Council must have been aware long ago of a deficiency: if not, 
Mr. Tyndal could have informed the meeting that Drs. Knox and 
Mercer had not attended some previous meetings of the Board, 
the latter having given in his resignation a considerable time since. 
