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from large pins’ heads to very small peas, and occupying half the 
surface. 
There were similar tubercles and abscesses within the connecting 
cellular membrane, and which I think were diseased lymphatic 
vessels passing through, as they had no other connection with the 
lungs. 
Glands, or Tumours . — Along the sides of the trachea, and near 
the aorta, there were nine or ten large tumours (two or three pounds 
each), which were, to all appearance, enlarged glands. The shape 
of some was oval, and that of others nearly circular. Two or three 
of the largest were of an irregular oval. They were, externally, 
loosely covered with a quantity of cellular membrane, and, rami- 
fying therefrom, were a great many lymphatic vessels, attached 
in their course to smaller tumours of various sizes, but many of 
them no larger than peas. The large glands or tumours contained 
matter resembling that in the lungs ; but it was harder, fibrous, and 
contained a more gritty substance, almost like spiculse of bone. 
Throughout their inner texture there were striae of a sort of carti- 
lage, giving them an appearance, as painters would say, of being 
marbled. I could not perceive that there was any disease in the 
pulmonary bloodvessels. This sort of deposit is very common in 
the glands about the larynx in cattle, and different to what we 
generally find in the horse. 
I cannot terminate this paper without expressing my pleasure on 
reading the announcement, in your last number, that Mr. Spooner has 
been attached to the Veterinary College, as Demonstrator and Assist- 
ant Professor; and I am sure there is not an individual forming the 
present class who does not hail it also with delight. As a Demonstra- 
tor, he is of a high order, and there is not a pupil who must not 
improve under his clear, concise, scientific, bold, and manly method of 
instruction. Well might you observe, “ the present class owes him 
the deepest debt of gratitude” for his unremitting attention to them 
while they were so unfortunately left without an instructor, and, 
for so great a length of time, through illness of the other respected 
Professors. 
I also congratulate the profession and the public on the intelli- 
gence that the College has, at last, agreed to commence the treat- 
ment of our other domesticated animals ; for sure I am that no stu- 
dent that ever leaves that College is fit to commence his arduous 
duties, as a country practitioner, without such knowledge, leaving- 
out of the question, as a necessary consequence, the loss he must 
sustain by not practising in that department. 
