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surface more extensive; and the counter-irritation, and consequent 
determination of blood, much greater. 
Mr. Sewell remarked, that in the inseition of the seton some of 
the subcutaneous vessels must be lacerated, and effusion produced; 
whereas a blister sometimes utterly failed. 
Mr. Field strenuously recommended warm clothing, to create 
and keep up a determination to the skin. 
Mr. Sewell did not object to warm clothing and bandages, but 
he urged the necessity of free exposure to the air. 
Mr? Goodwin much preferred a loose and well-ventilated box 
to direct exposure to the open air. He reprobated this latter 
practice as apparently brutal, and evidently unsurgical. Plenty 
of pure air might be given without exposing the poor animal to 
that extreme degree of cold from which no clothing could pio- 
tect the skin. 
Mr. Newport likewise strongly objected to direct exposure to 
the open air ; but he thought it expedient to remove the horse as 
soon as possible into the country. There was something in the 
atmosphere of the metropolis not favourable to the convalescence 
of our patients. 
Mr. Sewell recommended that, after the operation of paracen¬ 
tesis, tonic diuretics should be given, as the sulphates of zinc, iron, 
and copper, and likewise tonic aperients. 
Mr. Field admitted the propriety of diuretics, but much pre¬ 
ferred the vegetable tonics, and particularly gentian : the mine¬ 
ral tonics were too apt to nauseate. 
Mr. Sewell considered gentian as merely a stomachic. 
Mr. Field replied, that it was a tonic because it was a stomachic. 
The nature and treatment of chronic pleuritis were then con¬ 
sidered ; but nothing novel or very important was elicited. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
A has been received. tie must not censure Mr. Coleman too severely 
for refusing: permission to deliver lectures at the College Theatre which 
were not essentially connected with the education ot the veterinary stu¬ 
dent. „ 
To Mr. Quick’s postscript we answer “Yes. 
“ Studens” will see that the subject oil which he addresses lis 9 la i 
very ably treated by his fellow-citizen, and, probably, acquaintance, 
M Om'account of the opening of the Veterinary School at Toulouse was 
prepared before we received Mr. Dewhurst’s communication. We will not 
say that bis sketch of what veterinary education ought to be is thereby su¬ 
perseded, but we must not have too much on the same subject at the same 
