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on the septum, in one, two, or even three folds; and it was, without 
much exaggeration, as thin as a wafer. 
I have not, at present, any practical inferences to draw. I 
fear that I am describing the effect and not the cause of the dis¬ 
ease. As to the diagnosis of the complaint, we have a valuable 
and unerring guide. It is true that we find no general serous 
infiltration as in the human subject—no local inflammation—no 
injection of the mucous membranes—no cerebral congestion—no 
palpitation of the heart—no evident liver affection; but there is the 
evident and rapid wasting, and the pallid countenance, which is 
impressed upon the mind for ever. 
But I am writing an essay instead of a review of my friend’s 
work. In the name of all mv brethren, I thank him for this most 
interesting part of his work, and trust that we shall soon be fa¬ 
voured with another portion of it. 
Y. 
A Veterinary Toxicological Chart, containing those Agents 
which are known to cause DEATH in the HORSE; with the SYMP¬ 
TOMS, Antidotes, Action on the Tissues, and Tests. By 
W. J. T. Morton, Lecturer on Veterinary Materia Medica, ^c. 
Our indefatigable friend is again in the field, and supplying the 
young veterinarian with that which is of most essential use and ser¬ 
vice to him. It will occasionally happen, in the practice of us all, 
that valuable animals have been attempted to be destroyed by some 
miscreant about the stable, or that an over-dose of some useful but 
dangerous drug has been incautiously or ignorantly administered. 
Not a moment of time is to be lost; the nature of the poison 
may be known, or it must be guessed at from the symptoms, and 
the antidote must be immediately employed. 
The stomach of some valuable horse is, perhaps, brought to the 
surgeon. Poison is violently suspected. It may be necessary, for 
the satisfaction of the owner or the purposes of justice, that the 
decision should be immediate. No veterinary surgeon can carry in 
his memory the effect of every deleterious agent, and the precise 
tests by which the presence of that agent may be recognized, with 
whatever strange medley of substances it may be mingled. Then 
comes the value of a Chart like this, giving at one view the symp¬ 
toms, antidotes, and tests. This gift is scarcely inferior to those 
with which he has already presented his veterinary brethren. No 
great time will pass ere it will be suspended in the pharmacy of 
every practitioner. 
We scarcely know what article to select as a sample of the 
