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find that there is somewhere an opening from it into the nose. 
I am unable to write with greater precision, as you have not men- 
tioned whether the discharge is from one or both nostrils. You 
will, perhaps, be compelled to cast her before you can see and feel 
the parts properly; but of that you must judge. I am afraid that 
you will not be able to do much good, farther than to save the 
parties some trouble, or to prevent a law-suit — that, however, 
will be something. There can be little prospect of cure, as the 
orifice will have assumed a fistulous character, which will be kept 
up by the constant passage of the food. If there is a carious 
tooth or piece of bone, it must be removed, and, probably, the parts 
frequently cleaned with a syringe. I do not know of any other 
means of cure. 
W. D. 
ON THE PROFESSIONAL ARRANGEMENTS OF SOME 
VETERINARY PRACTITIONERS. 
By Mr . W. J. T. Morton, Royal Veterinary College . 
A GROWING evil exists in the profession, connected with which 
fresh facts are coming to my knowledge almost every day; and 
feeble though it be, I will raise my voice in condemnation of it, 
although I may, as I know I shall, inculpate many of my friends. 
I allude to the circumstance that many members of the profession, 
instead of taking youths of education and respectability as appren- 
tices or assistants, employ their grooms or smiths for the purpose 
of compounding and administering their medicines, and performing 
the minor operations of surgery, as bleeding, &c. I am sorry to 
be compelled to say, that many to whom the profession, as a body, 
has a right to look to for a different and better example, are guilty 
of this. 
When arguing the point with them, as I have often attempted 
to do, I have been met with the remark, that their groom does not 
know the nature of the disease under which the patient is labour- 
ing, and, consequently, he learns nothing. How short-sighted a 
view is thus taken ! Cannot inquiries be made ; nay, are they not 
made 1 Is there not frequently a selfish cunning about these cha- 
racters, lifted as they have been out of their situation, and having 
confidence placed in them which is too often abused, to institute 
these inquiries, and to observe and treasure in their memories 
many important facts 1 
Far be - it from me to blame any one for endeavouring to ad- 
vance himself in life. I rejoice to see the man who, by his indus- 
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