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HINDS’S VETERINARY SURGEON. 
The ^‘muscles to move the limbs aright/’ and the glands to se¬ 
crete the various fluids, are most important organs. How are 
they composed ? Muscle is constituted of blood deposited in 
the membrane, innumerable small arteries, some of which are 
scarcely visible, terminating within each muscle by a kind of 
doubling-up or curl ,* within each of these a corresponding vein 
is twined, and the whole being covered with the finest mem¬ 
brane constitutes a gland.” (p. 78.) 
How was it that Messrs. Percivall and’Blaine had not disco¬ 
vered this luminous and beautiful connexion between the mus¬ 
cular and glandular system; or why should they carelessly 
omit to tell us that the smaller glands have'each a small tube 
attached to it, which seems intended to hold the acrid and other 
noxious matter, which its lymphatic had refused to take up, as 
being at variance with its proper function ?” and that here it 
remains concealed, until the proper time arrive for carrying it 
off, and without which it is clear that disease of one sort or 
other must ensue.” (p. 79.) 
In the whole of their works have they given us so admirable 
an illustration of the processes of nutrition and circulation as 
the following, and so perfectly according with the sentences we 
have just quoted, and so strictly grammatical ? As the lac- 
teals absorb only nutritious juices, so the lymphatics absorb 
none but offensive ones, as the matter of diseases, wounds, spa¬ 
vins, broken bones, ulcers, and the useless part of the deposite 
made by the arteries; these being mixed passed through the 
heart, there receive fresh vital powers, and thence to the liver, 
there to be purged of its bad qualities, which passing inces¬ 
santly into the intestines is soon eliminated with the dung.” 
(p. si) 
Fye, gentlemen ! To your studies ! and apply to yourselves 
the following exquisite elucidation, of a metaphysical as well as 
a pathological question, Conscience (consciousness) which agi¬ 
tates the nerves by the faculty of thinking, when applied to the 
evils that are in the world, does sometimes cause the accession 
of fever to those delicate organs in human nature.” (p. 84.) 
Since writing the above I have ascertained upon the view, that 
a horse rankling under the effects of mal-treatment, absolutely 
broke the cells of his heart, through high-spirited chagrin.” 
. (p. 138.) 
What simile can be at once so brilliant and so correct as this. 
In the pleura then are wrapped up, as in two silk handker¬ 
chiefs, the two lobes of the lungs.” 
The description of the larynx is perfectly unique. Next to 
the throat these cartilages form a curious kind of chamber, 
