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about one in an hundred; and the result had come out under 
great variety of treatment; each person probably holding different 
opinions as to the origin and pathological conditions of the dis¬ 
ease. Can it be said then/’ he continued, that those poor 
animals who have struggled through the disease, under such 
experimental treatment, have been cured? May it not rather be 
said that they have escaped from the nimia diligentia medicorum^ 
by the strength of good constitutions and the reparative energies 
of nature?” 
Mr. W. Percivall concluded the evening’s discussion by thanking 
the meeting for their attention to his paper, and begged to re-assure 
them, that the only object he had in presenting it to their notice 
was to elicit inquiry. It had been said by some of the pupils 
that he had better not be too sanguine of success; he was aware, 
he said, that medical practitioners and veterinary surgeons had 
sometimes their day dreams, as well as the poet: but such a 
charge could not be brought against those who took anatomy 
and physiology for their guide; who, not satisfied with the ex¬ 
ternal part of the animal, examined minutely the component 
parts of the whole machine, and the operations which nature 
effected with beautiful simplicity in the regular adaptation of 
one part to another, and in the grand conformity of the whole. 
The remarks of Mr. Percivall throughout the evening were 
replete with information. When discussing the nature and 
origin of glanders, he did not at first seem to have transcended 
the known boundaries of the question,—nor to have penetrated 
farther than his predecessors into the terr& incognita of the dis¬ 
pute ; but, after awhile, we discovered our mistake, and per¬ 
ceived the efforts of a mind rich in the recollections of reading 
and observation. 
In conclusion, Paul Pry has to bes: the indulo;ence of those 
gentlemen whose speecnes he may have misquoted, and likewise 
for omitting many that were given on this memorable evening. 
The names of many he has forgotten, and they have passed away 
from the memory, as well a§ the good things they uttered. But 
the recollection of the many evenings that he has passed at the 
College, w hen the society held their meetings, will never be lost, 
whilst memory exists. And frigid indeed must be the heart that 
does not bound the lighter whilst the tongue recounts the tales 
of by-gone days, nor w^arm awhile at reminiscences which form 
the phantasmagoria of the past. These weekly meetings, and the 
pleasures then enjoyed, mark the fairest of the few unl)lotted 
passages of life’s manuscript; and are of that small number we 
can re-peruse without a sigh, and which we would not obliviatc, 
though memory should consent to the erasure. 
