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lion from his memoir; and we rejoice to see medical men and 
veterinarians uniting in the combined pursuit of such subjects. 
Mr. Simpson has added to our stock of veterinary knowledge, 
by his observations on the metastasis of inflammation, and on 
obscure hock-lameness ; and particularly, by his comparison 
between the high and low operation in neurotomy, and his 
very proper advocacy of the former in general cases. This is an 
interesting point of practice. 
Mr. Skeavington has placed that singular oriental disease, 
the worm in the eye of the horse/’ in a perfectly new point of 
view. 
Mr. Storry deserves the thanks of the profession for his com¬ 
munication of four additional cases of the cure of glanders, by 
“ fumigation with carbonic acid gas.” This is a portion of our 
vineyard in which every labourer is indeed honourably em¬ 
ployed. 
To Mr. C. Taylor much merit is due for his history of a suc¬ 
cessful performance of lithotomy, and for his ingenious descrip¬ 
tion of the instruments he employed. 
The account given by Mr. Thomson of the casualties attending 
castration, will be read with pleasure and improvement; and his 
case of a hymen in a filly is valuable. 
Mr. Young’s history of the fatal effect occasioned by the 
lodgment of a small needle under the tongue of a horse, is unique. 
If the writer of this article might, for a moment, allude to 
papers contributed by him, he would refer to some Illustra¬ 
tions of Disease” derived from animals that do not usually come 
under the veterinarian’s care. He would hint at the introduction 
of torsion into veterinary practice, as a means of arresting he¬ 
morrhage, and as promising eventually to supersede the clumsy, 
and often ineffectual, and almost always cruel, methods which 
were formerly resorted to for this purpose; and he would also 
glance at a sketch of the nervous system, suggested by the in¬ 
valuable discoveries of Sir Charles Bell, but extended farther 
than that eminent physiologist has hitherto gone ; embracing not 
merely the functions of respiration, but all the phenomena of 
organic life; and based on plain and undeniable anatomical 
facts. The connexion of this view of the nervous system with 
