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THE DANGER OF DRENCHES. 
the title a thing of much importance. If a better be devised, I am 
willing to adopt it. In other respects Mr. Daw’s remarks are 
nearly word for word the same as Mr. Wardle’s; and the answer 
which serves the one may serve the other. But, as Mr. Daws 
does not pretend to the same skill in drenching, he is not expected 
to notice the offer I have made Mr. Wardle. 
My essays, he says, must be less positive and less caustic. I 
have always thought that an essay on such subjects could not be 
too positive. The statements should be directly asserted, not 
vaguely or negatively implied. But perhaps Mr. Daws means 
the essayz^. Had his essay been positive, his meaning would 
have been plain. 
Reply to the Editor. 
Mr. Youatt thinks the subject should now be dropped. I am 
content to forbear further opposition. Having said enough myself, 
I am determined to say no more. I am not of opinion, however, 
that the subject should be altogether abandoned. It has now ob- 
tained a little attention, and future observation, being more alert, 
may be able to confirm what I have advanced ; and those who can 
should have an opportunity of doing so. It is very possible that 
I may be right, though others think me wrong. Indeed, when we 
consider how prone every man is to overlook events which he did 
not expect to witness, and how easily that is forgotten which is not 
understood, there need be no wonder that others have not come 
forward with confirmatory testimony. There is another reason. 
I have no doubt but there are practitioners who know the danger 
of drenching as well as I do, and yet remain silent, lest they should 
excite some forgotten suspicions of employers. The history of 
almost every science shews so often how opposition has been viru- 
lent without reason, audacious without strength, and confident 
without truth, that no man can be sure all is false which one be- 
lieves and four deny. 
Having stated my own experience, and shewn, as I think, the 
futility of all that has been urged in opposition, there is little more 
to be done. I might ask what evidence, after what has been said, 
would produce conviction ] but I believe the question w r ould not 
be answered. Since I wrote my first paper, I have met with 
another case. A horse, the property of Mr. Sim, of this city, 
took colic, and received a draught containing turpentine, oil, and 
tincture of opium, from his owner. The breathing instantly be- 
came so quick, that he was alarmed, and I was called. The 
horse recovered, but did not lie down till about the 15th day. 
If such cases had occurred to others, and been misunderstood, 
we might expect to find some records of them in The VeteRINA- 
