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composed of aloes, calomel aa 3 ss, digitalis 3 ], nit. potas. ; and 
setons dressed. 
4:th .—Pulse lower, but still intermittent; ball repeated, and 
setons dressed. 
5^/i.—Ditto, ditto, ditto. 
6 M.—Ditto, ditto, ditto. 
7th .—All the symptoms suddenly abated, when, suspecting 
effusion had taken place, I had recourse to paracentesis. 1 per¬ 
formed the operation by puncturing the thorax between the 
eighth and ninth ribs with a trocar. From the left side one pint 
of serum was obtained, but from the right eighteen pints were 
abstracted. 
8 M.—The animal being very much debilitated, I determined 
to give him tonic medicine, and accordingly administered a ball 
composed of sulph. cupri. ^ij, gentianse Jss, zingib. ^ss, twice 
a-day. 
^th .—I tapped him again, and obtained five pints from the 
right side, but none from the left. 
10^^ up to the 16^A.—The tonic balls were administered when 
the animal left my infirmary, and is now at work and doing well. 
[There needed no apology for the transmission of this case. 
Our periodical is devoted to the accumulation of facts connected 
with and hastening the progress of veterinary science; and our 
motto has been, and ever will be, Non unde, sed quid,” The 
history of a successful case of paracentesis of the chest is a 
valuable addition to these facts.—Y.] 
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE '^CONCISE ACCOUNT 
OF VETERINARY SURGERY.’’ 
To the Editors. 
I AM the author of the pamphlet, entitled ^^A Concise Ac¬ 
count of Veterinary Surgery, its Schools, and its Practitioners.” 
The substance of that little work formed the introduction to a 
popular course of lectures on veterinary medicine, delivered in 
the Andersonian University, Glasgow. I had frequent oppor¬ 
tunities of observing in what manner the statements it con¬ 
tained influenced the gentlemen who honoured me wuth their 
attendance ; and, considering our present relations to the public, 
I thought that the publication of this lecture might be of some 
little service to veterinarians, by making them better known. 
