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rectify them; but, except upon compulsion, I shall not soil a 
page in that pamphlet by such a name as Wilson’s. Let him, 
if he pleases, think me merciful if I should again address him. 
There will little learning die that day he is hanged.”—Fare¬ 
well, thou disease of a friend.” 
John Stewart. 
Glasgow, October 8, 1835. 
[And, now, the pages of The Veterinarian must never 
again be occupied by such papers as those of Mr. Wilson and Mr. 
Stewart. So far as these gentlemen are concerned, the corre¬ 
spondence is closed ; and I do not see how the subject can be 
resumed, except in the form of a calm and faithful history of the 
rise, and progress, and present state of the Edinburgh Veterinary 
School. From whom can this better come than from him who 
founded and continues to conduct it? Is it not a duty which he 
owes to his pupils, his profession, and himself?—Y.] 
ABSCESSES IN THE LIVER, MESENTERY, AND 
THIGH. 
Bij Mr. John Tombs, Pershore. 
Julpliy, 1834.—A grey hackney mare, six years old, the 
property of a gentleman of this town, was taken ill in the spring 
of this year, with a cold and sore throat. Apparently she re¬ 
covered with the ordinary mode of treatment, and was turned out 
to grass in a meadow adjoining the river Avon, and which was situ¬ 
ated in a cold damp place. For the last month, her owner has 
observed that she is not thriving so fast as he could wish ; there¬ 
fore she was brought home. An application was made to me to 
attend her, on account of supposed return of her former com¬ 
plaint. 
When I visited her she was labouring under the following 
symptoms:—Pulse hard and wiry, sixty beats in a minute ; tongue 
hot and furred ; respiration a little accelerated; appetite slightly 
impaired ; she lies down occasionally ; the legs and ears warm; 
tunica conjunctiva unusually reddened ; she coughs frequently. 
These symptoms induced me to treat her for a chest affection, 
and this I did for a month, with no advantage. I then thought 
the liver might possibly be affected, although the faeces were of 
