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THE EFFICACY OF IODINE. 
when the iodine ointment ceased to be applied, and that, on taking 
her from grass, he meant to give another trial to the iodine. The 
result of this I will communicate to you at a future period. 
Case II. 
A bay mare, the property of Major Townshend, remarkably 
vicious, and almost unmanageable, had had for a considerable time 
a large abscess in the muscles of the thigh, and which, on healing, 
had left a considerable thickening of the surrounding parts. Blis- 
ters and other stimulants were tried without effect. I recommended 
a trial of the iodine and mercurial ointment, and which totally re- 
moved the blemish in the course of a fortnight, to the utter asto- 
nishment of the owner. 
Case III. 
A colt, of the blood kind, belonging to E. Corbet, Esq., had, on 
one knee, a bursal enlargement, which the owner had had repeat- 
edly blistered, and which he was beginning to despair of ever re- 
moving. He, one day, casually mentioned the circumstance to me. 
I advised him to try this ointment. In a few days he requested 
me to send him a pot of it. He has since informed me that the 
tumour has entirely disappeared. 
I am now using it for spavins and other ossific deposits, and will 
tell you the result at a future and not far distant period. 
I cannot permit this opportunity to pass without acknowledging 
the sincere pleasure with which I contemplate the growing pros- 
perity of the Veterinary Medical Society, and the harmony and 
goodwill that exists among its working members. In fact, every 
man seems to be putting his shoulder to the wheel; and, so long 
as this is the case, the machine must progress. I would that I re- 
sided in your happy neighbourhood, if it were only to be enabled 
to mingle occasionally among you. 
Every lover of his profession must also hail with delight the 
prospect of future and rapidly increasing improvement which now 
offers itself at the Royal Veterinary College. There are, however, 
some circumstances which demand immediate and most anxious 
and determined consideration : — I refer particularly to the decreased 
fees required from the pupil. The honour of the profession is 
deeply involved in this, and likewise the growing usefulness of the 
school, whose reputation and usefulness we all have deeply at heart. 
If there are not the “ sinews of improvement ,” this noble institution 
will not only be arrested in its onward march, but will soon begin 
to retrograde even below its former state of insufficiency. 
