12 ON TWIN FOALS, OPENED JOINTS, GLANDERS, 
I will content myself with pointing out its situation and course 
from the hiatus at the tuberosity of the superior maxillary, to 
the upper part of the middle portion of the facial surface of that 
bone. 
ON TWIN FOALS—OPENED JOINTS—GLANDERS— 
AND “ THE VETERINARIAN.” 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, F.S., Truro. 
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’Ov maw ye pafoov e;Tv eugeiv egyov, i$’ u> evx ay Tig aWiav —Xenophon. 
It is not easy to find any work in which some person may not discover a fault. 
Btshop Fleetwood was never displeased at any position of his 
being controverted. “ I write my own sense,” said he, “as 
well as I can : if it is right, it will support itself; if it will not, 
it is fit it should sink.” Agreeing in opinion with the right rev. 
prelate, I am obliged to those gentlemen who have taken the 
trouble to prove my statement (that a mare was never known to 
bring forth twin foals alive) incorrect: “ Humanum est errare.” 
If some of your correspondents were to express their opinions 
ofteneron those subjects which appear as novelties in your pub¬ 
lication, it would be far better for the interest of the science; for 
we are sometimes so fond of things connected with self, that we 
are apt to cry “ evince.” over a genius not yet found, nor ever 
will be discovered. We stand midwife to a gnat, and make as 
much noise as if a mule or an elephant had brought forth : “par¬ 
turient montes,” &c. &c. 
I have been indebted to some of your correspondents for much 
useful information ,* and to some of them I now publicly avow my 
gratitude. 
Palmam qui meruit ferat. 
To Mr. Thomas Turner's excellent paper* on opened joints, 
I am indebted for a sure , safe , and in my belief, a never-failing 
remedy for wounded joints, when it is possible to apply the reme¬ 
dy according to Mr. T.'s directions. By following the plan he 
has so plainly laid down, I have succeeded in some of the most 
appalling cases; and so confident am I of its efficacy, that I 
would now undertake the most desperate case, without requiring 
any remuneration if I did not succeed in making a complete cure. 
In only one instance (for I have tried it on more than fifty) did 
anchylosis take place ; and that was a mare belonging to an inn- 
* Veterinarian, vol. ii, page 272. 
