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ment, so different from that of inflammation of the parenchymatous substance 
of the lungs. 
Of the next paper I will only say that it was on a new and important sub- 
ject — “ The Symptoms and Treatment of Inflammatory Fever in Cattle.” It 
was the composition of the individual who now addresses you, and he endea- 
voured to do justice to it. 
Mr. Henderson selected a subject unpresuming in its title, but on which 
many novel and useful remarks were elicited, — “ Splent in the Horse,” and the 
Distinction between it and Node in the Human Subject. 
To this succeeded an ingenious paper on “ The Causes and Treatment of 
Pneumonia,” by Mr. Langworthy, — and another on a novel and most efficacious 
“ Treatment of Opened Joints, and particularly the Knee,” by Mr. Thomas 
Turner. This was a most ingenious application of the old-established princi- 
ple, never to remove the dressing until the joint had closed , and the synovia ceased 
to flow. 
To this followed the revival of the “ One-sided Nailed Shoe,” by Mr. James 
Turner, and the application of it to a new and noble purpose, viz., the expan- 
sion of the foot of the horse, and by that expansion, and consequent release 
from torture, conferring on that useful animal a boon, in the contemplation of 
which I can almost forgive the cautery lesions to which Mr. Turner had had 
recourse, and which he had so warmly defended. 
I am too much intruding on your patience, and have time only to mention 
the titles of Mr. King’s Essay on “ Puerperal Fever,” and in which, and the 
debate that ensued upon it, we contemplated the first dawn of those new and 
correct views of this mysterious disease, which were first adopted by Mr. 
Friend, and that have since almost ripened into perfect day. 
Mr. W. Percivall’s erudite Treatise on “ Soundness in Horses” soon followed. 
It was an Herculean task that he attempted, but he was equal to its accom- 
plishment. If we owed nothing more to Mr. Percivall than this simple view of 
soundness, that “ the animal is not merely free from disease, but equal to every 
useful purpose for which he was created,” we should lie under much obliga- 
tion to him. The pleasure of the present meeting is much diminished by the 
knowledge that he is now kept from us by domestic affliction. 
One paper more must be alluded to — Mr. W. Goodwin’s explication of the 
most mysterious of all diseases, those of the “ Hock of the Horse,” and the 
reference of those which are not attended with external exostosis to ulcera- 
tion of the synovial membrane of the cuneiform bones, gradually extending to 
and involving these bones. 
In addition to these most important papers, no fewer than forty-three con- 
tributors, either voluntarily, or wanting but little pressing, enriched our Journal 
with their contributions — still, on the winding up of the year, we were again 
minus, although not to so great an extent as in the first year. 
In the third volume we had precisely the same number of contributors, and 
we found that even that year had not quite covered its expenses, although the 
deficiency was comparatively small. At the expiration of 1831, there was 
a small balance in favour of that year. My valued collaborateur then left me 
to myself, and to the recollection of the mutual good-feeling with which, with- 
out one moment’s alienation, we had worked together in a cause that we deeply 
felt ought ultimately to succeed, and that now promised not quite to deceive 
our expectations. 
Mr. Field has been pleased to express himself in kind and flattering terms 
as to the labours and mortifications which attended our early career. I con- 
fess that there were times when, giving way to feelings of disappointment and of 
anger — anger that we had no right to indulge in, for there was no compulsion 
here — there were times when our grumblings were somewhat loud and deep : 
