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MR. SEWELL AND THE PHYSICIANS. 
feel that, when writing on a veterinary subject, common sense, 
courtesy, and interest, would induce him first to consult his 
brethren. If he submitted his productions to another tribunal, 
his good sense would tell him, that the natural conclusion would 
be, either that he did not think us competent, or that he was 
afraid to meet us. We will enquire about this: we will see if 
there is any one who, just at this point of time, when Mr. Vines’s 
work is struggling for birth, is justly asserting a prior claim, or 
endeavouring to rob him of deserved commendation.” 
We enquired ; and lo and behold ! we found that it was Mr. 
Assistant Sewell, who, again forgetting that there were veterinary 
surgeons, and societies, and publications, or believing that we 
were really as ignorant as the faulty education of the College had 
a tendency to make us, had scorned to submit his lucubrations to 
our consideration, but had taken them to a more competent tri¬ 
bunal. However, we will not say another word about this; it 
would be perfectly useless; but we w T ill relate the result of the 
affair, and we wish Mr. Sewell joy of it. 
“ Oh ! it was Mr. Sewell,” said a physician of no mean emi¬ 
nence, who had been present at the meeting; u but what he 
meant by bringing his cases of glanders before us, we could not 
tell. We knew nothing about them. He took some pains to 
explain the drawings; but we could make neither head nor tail 
of them.” “ The Medical Gazette ” of the succeeding week 
afforded a complete illustration of this. Describing the plates, 
the writer says — u The first plate represented hepatization of 
the lungs of an ass, produced by inoculation from the suppurating 
hepatized lungs of a glandered horse, that being one of the sources 
of the disease called glanders. The second represented miliary 
tubercles resulting ]from inoculation with the matter of a suppu¬ 
rating tubercle of the lungs of a glandered horse, another and a 
more common cause of glanders ” 
