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well, by degrees we added chaff to his mashes. At the end of 
three weeks he was put to gentle work, always avoiding touching 
his tongue, and, at a month’s end, he was perfectly cured, and ate 
hay as well as ever. It formed a complete junction, and preserved 
its natural faculties, though, on inspection, it was very visible, as 
there was a considerable chasm, nearly as deep as would contain a 
goose-quill.” 
The Editor adds to this, that many instances have occurred to 
him in which the apex of the tongue has been nearly severed, and, 
in some cases, to so great an extent as to render the giving of a ball 
very difficult, without considerable risk of its apex being pulled 
off*. — Y. 
ON THE FORMATION OF A VETERINARY BENEVO- 
LENT INSTITUTION. 
By Mr . W. J. T. Morton, Royal Veterinary College. 
“ Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, 
Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.” 
Full oft has the plaintive tale been told, and the earnest inquiry 
made, — “ Is there no fund whence relief to the distressed veterinary 
practitioner can be afforded]” The answer, of necessity, has 
been in the negative, and the chilling word has awakened the 
questions, “Why is it so ] Cannot some plan be adopted by which 
‘ soft melting Charity’ may exercise her heavenly office, without 
arousing those painful feelings which mar a noble act, and make 
man feel inferior to his fellow-man]” 
“ The tear that is wiped with a little address, 
May be followed, perhaps, with a smile.” 
The strong are commanded to help the weak, and we are told 
to do good unto all men. Now it has been my misfortune,, situated 
as I am, to see and hear much of the distress which arises either 
from the want of circumspection in conduct at the onset of life, or 
from those visitations of Providence to which it becomes us to 
submit, however dark and mysterious they may appear. 
* The Hippiatrist, vol. iii, p. 98. For instances of laceration of the tongue 
see The Veterinarian, vol. v, p. 22, and ix, p. 39. 
Geoffrey St. Hilaire, in the “ Histoire des Anomalies,’' vol. i, gives a curious 
account of a calf with a double tongue, one by the side of the other, or, ac- 
cording to Meckel, a bifurcation of the tongue. In cases of true double 
tongue, accoirding to these collectors of monstrosities, one must be above the 
other. 
