MISCELLANEA. 
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On the following day l found her up and ruminating; but the 
pulse was hard ; there were occasional expulsive efforts, and the 
milk was secreted in great quantity. She was bled, and the same 
diet continued. 
21sL — Her state is more satisfactory. The efforts at expulsion 
have ceased ; the appetite is good, and the secretion of milk abun- 
dant. I removed the bandage, and allowed her a little more 
nourishing food. She continued to improve, and the calf, wholly 
fed by the milk of its mother, grew rapidly. 
After the expiration of fifteen days, I thought of removing the 
ends of the sutures, and they were detached very easily. 
During the whole of the time that she was under treatment, a 
small quantity of purulent and fetid matter occasionally escaped 
from the vulva, and there were slight efforts to contract the uterus, 
but not of a nature to cause a new expulsion. Emollient injections 
acidulated with vinegar were thrown into the vulva. At the 
expiration of twenty-five days she was quite well. 
She again became pregnant two years afterwards — calved 
easily, and has since been sold with her calf. 
liec. de Med. Vet., Avril 1836. 
jfMtsrfUanea* 
RESIDENCES OF STUDENTS IN THE METROPOLIS. 
To the Editor of l< The Lancet.” 
Sir, — As you have usually devoted a portion of your Journal, 
at the commencement of the medical session, to those matters 
which may conduce to the welfare of medical students whilst in 
the metropolis, will you permit me, an old member of the pro- 
fession, to make a remark or two on a subject which has often 
arrested my attention ? I allude to the domestic position of the 
student upon his entree into this modern Babylon. With regard 
to his professional arrangements, what with the recommendation 
of friends, and your kind advice, but little difficulty will be 
experienced ; what appears to me to require consideration on the 
part of parents and friends, and I might add teachers also, is, 
such domestic arrangements as will obviate the necessity of his 
going into a common lodging-house, and a consequent associa- 
tion with the idle and dissipated of the class. I would therefore 
suggest, with your approval, that in each medical school a list 
should be kept of particular families who receive boarders on 
moderate terms ; and perhaps it would be desirable that the resi- 
dence of each pupil should be inserted in a book kept for that 
