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MR. MORTON’S INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 
pleasing and easy to you, while its truths will be written on your 
minds as with a pen of adamant. 
You will naturally expect that 1 should point out to you the 
books which will be most useful to you in your study of chemistry. 
So many valuable treatises have issued from the press, that I feel 
some difficulty in making a selection. I would advise you to read 
Dr. Paris’s Medical Chemistry, for it was written solely for the 
medical student ; and it contains much important and interesting 
matter, although it must be confessed that it is not so recent a pub- 
lication as could be wished, and does not contain all the recognised 
doctrines of the present day. Brande’s Manual of Chemistry stands 
high in my estimation for its clearness and simplicity of arrange- 
ment. Turner’s and Graham’s are more recent publications ; and, 
besides these, you have Parkes’s Catechism, Thomson’s Outlines, 
Reid’s Chemical Text-book, and others; so that I must almost leave 
you to select your own chemical library — the truth being, that the 
only difference in most of them is in size and manner, and not in 
matter. I have taken neither of them as my text-book, my remarks 
not admitting of it ; but I have collected from all. 
Seneca says, the bee that sips from every flower, carefully dis- 
poses what she has gathered into her cells. I know that I have 
not evinced the industry of this insect ; yet I can truly say, that 
I have been anxious to collect all the useful matter I could obtain, 
both for your benefit and my own. 
Your indulgence I may have hereafter to claim. I have many 
duties to perform; nor must I allow them to clash. You will, I 
trust, always find me at my post ; and if, at times, you should per- 
ceive me tripping, deal gently 'with me ; and remember, that I am 
only a private although a willing teacher, solicitous to communi- 
cate the little I know, and ever anxious to ensure your esteem. 
ON ABSCESS. 
By Mr. Pritchard, of Wolverhampton. 
I FELT much pleased with the perusal of two papers in the last 
Veterinarian, on the subject of abscess, one from Mr. Mayer, 
the other from Mr. Hayes. It is on diseases of this kind that we 
derive little or no information from authors of general treatises, and 
on which practitioners even at the present day require much prac- 
tical knowledge. 
The veterinary writers of the last century, at least some of 
them, professed a tolerable share of information on the nature and 
