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ing yellowness of the eyes^ until its appearance at the anus, or 
in the other case as it ascends up to the nostrils, making its 
appearance first about the head, and communicates either-way 
to the skin and its coat/^ What admirable perspicuity and pre¬ 
cision ! 
' How satisfactory Mr. Hinds’s account of the functions of the 
liver. Any disease with which it (the liver) may be attacked 
must be proportionably violent in its progress, and difficult to 
cure, inasmuch as both will depend upon the state every other 
viscus may be in through which the blood happens to have pass¬ 
ed. Are the kidneys or either of them inflamed? the blood 
which has recently passed through them comes to the liver to 
get rid of its noisomeness in the form of bile. Is an abscess to 
be dispersed, and the acrid matter to be driven from the part 
to be taken up by the lymphatics? at the.liver it must be strain¬ 
ed off, and here must be imparted a portion of its baleful quali¬ 
ties.” (p. 135.) 
The cause and progress of hepatitis are described in a novel 
and luminous manner. Inflammation of the proximate organs, 
as of the diaphragm to which the upper portion of the liver is 
strongly attached j as well as the kidneys to which the off side 
thin portion of the liver is adjacent, communicate their baleful 
heat to this fine organ, and an increased formation of bile is the 
immediate consequence. The blood in passing through the 
liver acquires a portion of this extra heat, which re-produceth 
more at its next passage through it, more at the next, and so 
on, until the inflammation of the whole liver is completely af¬ 
fected.” (p. 263.) 
Pneumonia is occasioned by a sudden check given to the 
circulation by cold,” and the cure is sometimes mainly affect¬ 
ed by the effusion of water in the chest, which frequently takes 
place upon bleeding the patient: the practitioner has little more 
^to do than place himself in the situation of the handmaid of 
nature, and all will go on well towards perfect restoration.” 
(p. 195.) 
There is one method of cure which used to be strenuously re¬ 
commended by the professor of the veterinary college, the pro¬ 
priety of which we will not at present discuss, but it behoves 
Mr. Coleman seriously to consider the following most ingenious 
and unanswerable objection to it. Mr. Coleman advised turn¬ 
ing the horse into a loose box, leaving open the apertures, loith’- 
out clothing, or paying any regard to the season. Nought how- 
- ever could be more absurd than to suppose that a disease which 
is produced by cold, should have the continuance of cold pre¬ 
scribed for its.cure.” (p. 199.) 
