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appeared to be gradually diminishing, still it was some weeks 
before the animal recovered his wonted spirits and former con¬ 
dition. 
Now, Mr. Editor, I do not send you this case, as I forewarned 
you, to boast of a cure; neither do I wish it to stand against me 
as an instance to shew that I was or am an unwarrantable experi¬ 
menter in my practice, and for this reason you must excuse me from 
sending either my own name, or that of the party to whom the horse 
belonged; but I send the case to you to answer the same puipose 
that an anchored buoy does at sea,—to enable my brother pro¬ 
fessionals to steer clear of the shoals and quicksands. I know it 
is by no means an uncommon practice, if not among veterinarians, 
yet among sportsmen and grooms, especially in cases of worms, 
to prescribe castor oiL I would have them, to use their own lan¬ 
guage, ‘^have a care.’^ This is the second case that has occurred 
to my knowledge. In the former one, which happened in the 
practice of a relation of mine, the horse died. I believe, myself, 
that not less than a pint, even of the best oil, will produce a de¬ 
cidedly purgative effect; and this quantity I take to be hazardous 
and unsafe in its operation : but I should very much like to hear 
what you, or some one of your able and experienced corespond¬ 
ents, say on the subject. 
In the mean time, believe me to have too much regard for my 
patients to make them the subjects of dangerous experiments, 
^though no one more than myself laments the chasms that remain 
to be filled up in our medical practice. Your’s, 
An Inquirer. 
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 
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FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE ANATOMY OF VARIOUS 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
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By H. W. Dewhurst, Esq., Lecturer on Human and Compa- 
rative Anatomy. 
HAVING, in a former number of The Veterinariany called the 
attention of the students to the study of comparative anatomy, 
' I now forward a few facts connected with the anatomy of the do¬ 
mestic animals; and in doing so, I shall commence with the do¬ 
mestic cat, which stands, according to the classification of my 
worthy teacher Mr. Brookes, as follows:— 
