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PAUL pry’s reminiscences. 
Sewell on the debate in question. Nothing, indeed, could be 
more unexpected than the oration of the Assistant Professor on 
this memorable evening. That he should have talked so long 
without intermission was extraordinary, for one whose powers of 
speech had previously been seldom extended beyond the parlia¬ 
mentary standard of eloquence, in saying, yes,” or “ no,’’ in a 
case of consultation. I have not seen the worthy gentleman for 
some years ; but at that period I considered him to be a fair 
sample of that homebred, upright, common sense, which seems 
to form the instinct of the mass ; and which it is greatly the 
fashion to deride in those circles of “ Vets” in which mystifica¬ 
tion passes for profound thinking and bold assumption for evidence. 
There was a great deal of embarrassment at the commence¬ 
ment of his discourse, but this gradually wore off’. 
Mr. Percivall was of opinion that the lungs were not in every 
instance diseased at the commencement of glanders ; he would 
rather say, that they were rarely or never so. “ He had always 
considered, and he had been in the habit of finding, so far as 
proof could be adduced in such a case, that tubercles were the 
effect of glanders, and not the cause.” 
Mr. Sewell, in reply, said, “that he had examined many 
hundreds of horses that had died glandered, but never found 
one that had not tuberculous lungs.” 
Mr. Percivall stated, in answer to a question from a pupil as 
to the manner in which his specific acted on the constitution of 
horses, that he did not comider it to be a specific; it would be 
ridiculous thus prematurely for any one to suppose such a thing. 
He had said no more than that barytes had appeared to have 
been of service in several cases, and he wished to ascertain how 
far the experience of others coincided with his. Barytes was a 
medicine that required much caution in introducing it into 
the system. In large doses it caused sudden death ; and its 
deleterious effects were accompanied with an internlittent pulse; 
indeed, the commencement of intermission was the signal of 
danger. In the horses that had died from an over-quantity be¬ 
ing administered, he could not discover any particular lesion, on a 
post-mortem examination, except a slight inflammation of the 
stomach. The proper dose of barytes was from half a drachm 
to two drachms. 
Mr. Sewell said, that “he considered that the sulphate of 
copper was a much safer medicine than barytes, and much more 
efficacious The French veterinarians had tried the barytes, but 
they found the remedy to be as bad as the disease, inasmuch 
as it had killed their patients —and 
In reply to a question from a pupil, Mr. Sewell said, “ that 
