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tried it, and found it fearfully active — potent even beyond bichlo- 
ride of mercury. One more case of recovery is recorded of 
that formidable disease, hydrothorax : in this instance we believe 
recovery was the result of cure ; not by paracentesis thoracis , we 
opine, although that was performed, and no doubt afforded relief ; 
but through the exhibition and saturation of the system with 
mercury : the case reflects the greatest credit on Mr. G. Holmes, 
of Thirsk, in Yorkshire. Mr. Tindal’s miscellaneous accounts of 
disorders befalling the horse, the dog, the sheep, the cow, shew 
the veterinarian in his true character, prepared to heal all that 
may come before him ; casting round the world an equal eye, 
and feeling for all that live. 
From our old and excellent correspondent, Mr. Tombs, we have 
a case of “ epilepsy, ” or megrims, or vertigo, which appears to 
have owed much of its recovery to letting blood from the tem- 
poral arteries, a practice we have always ourselves warmly ad- 
vocated in acute encephalic inflammations, and in congestion. 
For another case of that fatal disease, rupture of the diaphragm, 
which, though peculiar to the horse, was first brought to our 
notice by a surgeon, we are indebted to Mr. Ernes. An instance, 
rare of its kind, of idiopathic tetanus occurring in a yearling 
bull-calf, is recorded by Mr. Copeman. We do not think Mr. 
Younghusband had much to apprehend in cutting off a portion of 
protruded omentum he was unable to return into the wound in the 
abdomen : every surgeon would have done the same thing, and 
fearlessly ; but his case is instructive, as shewing the inconve- 
nience — if not danger — of suffering air to enter the abdominal 
cavity. The Prize Essay of Mr. Cowie will not be forgotten either 
by the veterinarian or the agriculturist: the writer of this has long- 
felt assured in his own mind that great improvements might be — 
and one day will be — made in horse and cattle dietetics : the 
regular course of feeding — hay and raw oats — cannot surely be 
the best; or, if the best as regards the horse for certain work, is 
not that which appears best suited either for the agricultural 
horse’s stomach or for his master’s pocket. The ergot of rye has 
been shewn by Mr. Harrison, surgeon, Chester, to have exerted 
the same beneficial influence on a bitch in labour as it w r ould 
have done on a human being. The presence of worms ( teretes ) 
