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par vagum appeared perfectly healthy, as did the whole of the 
spinal marrow. The cardiac half of the stomach was redder 
than usual, but not redder than we continually see it after 
affections of the respiratory organs. The oesophagus was quite 
healthy. The larynx and adjoining parts, and the whole of 
the lungs, were in a state of congestion, and the corpse was 
that of one who died after struggling. The hands were clenched, 
and the lips turgid and blue. The heart was strongly contracted. 
The spasmodic attacks which took place were quite sufficient 
to cause the congestion observed in these parts, though, were 
they not so, the congestion would not explain the peculiar symp¬ 
toms. We cannot hope to discover the nature of the disease by 
morbid anatomy, but by careful investigation of the symptoms 
daring life. Whatever morbid anatomy can teach us of the na¬ 
ture of any disease, we are bound to learn. We are bound to 
note every fact in morbid anatomy ; but observation during life 
of the symptoms, history, and causes of diseases, are the chief 
part of the basis of pathology. 
THE VETERINARIAN , JUNE 1 , 1830 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
W e have received so many letters respecting the threatened 
action against the Veterinary College forbad shoeing, that we have 
deemed it proper to make all the inquiry in our power respecting 
it. Whatever concerns that institution is public property, and the 
profession and the public have an undoubted right to be made 
other part, but the main trunk descends to the diaphragm, and 
expands itself completely on that muscle. Mr. C. Bell, to whom 
we are indebted for the only satisfactory explication of the 
nervous system, is of opinion that the phrenic nerve, though 
coming out with the cervical nerves, does in all probability take 
its origin from the same portion of the medulla spinalis with the 
accessory nerve. 
I now quit the subject, with many thanks to Dr. Elliotson for 
a most interesting and valuable paper. For the freedom of my 
remarks I make no apology; he will not be displeased to see 
the humblest labourer working in such a field. The readers of 
The V et erin art an, I trust, will not be displeased with the un¬ 
usual length of this article: I eagerly availed myself of such an 
opportunity to contrast the nature and symptoms of rabies in the 
human subject and the brute. 
