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lopement of this symptom, the inflammatory action suddenly ceased 
in the eye. Bleeding, laxative, alterative, and diaphoretic medi¬ 
cines were employed. On the 15th of June, the phlegmonous 
swelling (as I have ventured to call it) disappeared rather sud¬ 
denly from the limb, and, at the same time, the off-eye was at¬ 
tacked with a violent paroxysm of inflammation; the near one 
partaking, but only in a slight degree: and this continued till 
about the 30th, when it again began to subside, ultimately leav¬ 
ing the eye very cloudy and discoloured, and with an incipient 
cataract in both. This horse was soon after cast and sold, on 
account of blindness or diseased vision. . * 
Here, then, was a clear metastasis, or translation of the inflam¬ 
matory action from the legs to the eyes, and back again, well 
marked, and occurring more than once : but I have seen nothing 
like it since, and, I repeat, I give this merely as a curious fact. 1 
am aware that no stress can be laid on a single instance. 
I have been drawn into a longer story than I at first intended, 
and am afraid I have been trespassing much upon your patience; 
but, 
“ Such arc my talcs: if readers wish for more, 
Sir Joseph’s wallet holdeth many a score.”—r.r. 
Edinburgh) Jan . 1830. 
We will venture to say, in behalf of our readers, that they wish 
for nothing better than the gradual unburthening of a wallet 
stored with such excellent viands. There is, however, one article, 
a portion of which has been already served, so richly flavoured, 
and abounding with such nutritive matter, that, although glut¬ 
tony be a “ vice” and may soon become a u habit,' we are 
longing for a second taste of it.— Editors. 
a weed (I don’t know why), and I am not aware that wc have any better 
term for it, yet I think wc ought. I may here take occasion to re¬ 
mark, that I, for one, have often felt the want of some better nosological 
arrangement than that in common use amongst us; of which, it must be 
owned, many terms arc vague and indefinite, not to say barbarous. 
