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ON THE WEED IN HORSES. 
20th. — Dead. Hydatids occupied not, as usual, a situation 
between the brain and its membranes, but each of the lateral ven- 
tricles was filled with an enormous one. The roof of each ven- 
tricle was diminished in thickness ; there were not more than 
two lines remaining of that on the right side, and the inner 
plate of the skull corresponding with this situation was thinned 
materially. There was little injection either of the cerebral sub- 
stance or its membranes, and there was no considerable visceral 
disease, either pectoral or abdominal. 
ON THE WEED IN HORSES. 
By Mr. James Anderson, Leicester. 
“ This mud produces nought but unwholesome weeds.” — Gesner. 
In the last number of The Veterinarian, an anonymous 
writer, signed “ A Country Blacksmith and Farrier,” is pleased 
to call me a pirate, in reference to my paper on “ Weed in the 
Horse,” inserted in the May number of your Journal. I plead 
not guilty to the charge. Let the cause be tried at the bar of 
public opinion : — 
Farrier . — Did not you see Mr. Thomson’s work, and copy 
from it ? 
Anderson. — I never knew that Mr. Thomson wrote any such 
a work. 
F. — Strange ! and you, being fellow-students, to be ignorant 
of the work. 
A. — We have had no correspondence with each other since 
the time we passed our examinations, and our residences have 
been many a mile distant : the volume, it would appear, has had 
but a very local circulation, and the less the better, according to 
your report. 
F. — How can you account for such a “ coincidence” in your 
respective papers on Weed? 
A. — When we were students we lodged in the same house; 
attended Professor Dick’s lectures ; had frequent discussions 
upon what we heard delivered by that gentleman and others. 
F. — Did Professor Dick enter largely on Weed? 
A. — He gave a laconic but true statement. 
F. — How do you prove that he was right in his opinions ? 
A. — By ray subsequent practice. 
F. — Have you ever heard any other lecturer on Weed ? 
