5G0 ON FIRING, ' . 
refrained from entering upon these points himself at the present 
time, although he says he lias “as much to remark as would fill 
a volume,” which he proposes “ ere long to submit to the pub¬ 
lic/' probably I had better myself reserve what I have to offer 
on the subject until Mr. T. shall open his well-stored budget. 
In the mean time, I cannot help remarking, that Mr. T. appears 
to have had extraordinary luck in never having met with “ a single 
mishap from the severity of the operation, such as an opened 
joint, or a fatal termination from excessive irritation or consti¬ 
tutional disturbance.” 
As to the likelihood there is of introducing firing into human 
(certainly not into humane) surgery, Mr. Wakley, the Editor of 
The Lancet , can inform him much better than myself. For my 
own part, I only wish to know why Mr. Turner (whose osten¬ 
sible reason for sending this communication to a medical and not 
a veterinary journal was the suggestion of such introduction) 
chose to throw so much matter into his “ inquiry” that could in 
nowise interest the surgeon, although it was subject of great 
concern to the veterinarian. Surely, Mr. T. is not going to 
pursue the course the Professor’s Assistant, Mr. Sewell, takes > 
when the spirit moves him to publish ; viz. to send his lucubra¬ 
tions to the College of Physicians ! I or else to some Medical 
Journal, for fear they should happen to catch the eye or the ear 
of any one who could possibly form some estimate of the value 
of them. 
A Looker-on. 
Sept. 20. * __ 
ON FIRING. 
Having given, in our last Number, Mr. James Turner’s paper oh 
Deep Firing , justice to him and our readers requires us further 
to extract from The Lancet Mr. Fenwick’s reply, and Mr. Turner’s 
rejoinder. We shall then, for awhile, quit the subject, anxiously 
awaiting the appearance of Mr. Turner’s promised work on this 
severe application of the cautery, and we shall then be better 
enabled to judge how far it may be reconcileable with good 
practice or humanity. 
MR. FENWICK IN REPLY TO MR. TURNER ON THE OPERATION 
OF “ FIRING.” 
[From the Lancet, Sept. 4, 1830.] 
To the Editor of “ The Lancet 
Sir,'—I beg to offer a few r remarks on Mr. Turner’s opinions on 
firing, considering them of a dangerous tendency, ana rendered 
