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CONSULTATIONS. 
I shall be much obliged if, at a convenient time, you will favour 
me with your opinion on the subject, and Vhat the treatment ought 
to be. 
I am, dear Sir, with due respect, &c. &c. 
To Professor Dick, Edinburgh. 
ANSWER. 
Dear Sir, — I have to thank you for the account of the quadru- 
plets. You know I like facts — any person may theorize. 
I am sorry that I cannot point out any plan of treatment likely 
to be successful in the other case which you mention. 1 shall be 
obliged by your sending me a specimen of the tumours, with a his- 
tory of the cases — stating the particular exposure of the farm or the 
field in which they have grazed during the summer. I should be glad 
to know all particulars, in order that I may be satisfied whether they 
correspond with other facts I have learned, and which you seem to 
have forgotten. From what I know of the country around you, I 
am much mistaken if you do not find that these cattle have been 
exposed to the eastern breezes which so much prevail with you, 
and to which your town is so much exposed. 
These hints will, perhaps, remind you of my Lectures on 
“ Clyers ” in cattle ; but state to me only the facts — never mind my 
theories. When I know the facts, I may be able to advise a pre- 
ventive, which will be better than a doubtful cure. The disease is 
phthisis pulmonalis, which, whether in man or animals, is always 
very hopeless ; and it is, therefore, better to recommend some pro- 
bable means of preventing the disease, than to waste our energies 
in attempting a hopeless cure. 
I am, mv dear Sir, your’s very truly, 
W. Dick. 
No. XIX. 
WARRANTY. 
Sir, — Since I last wrote to you, I have had an opportunity of 
selling the mare concerning which I had informed you that she had 
occasional nervous attacks. After I saw you she had them twice, 
but not lasting more than half a minute at either time. I will 
describe them as minutely as possible. 
She is to all appearance in perfect good health; feeds greedily; 
no purging, or any apparent disease whatever, with the exception 
