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those upon the inside of Poupart’s ligament.—When vessels 
are injected, and very much resemble lymphatics, the best me¬ 
thod of determining whether they are or are not lymphatics, is 
to trace them to the nearest lymphatic glands : if they terminate 
in them in the usual manner, they are lymphatics. 
(Communication* ano (Ca***. 
Ars veterinaria post medieinam secunda est.—Y egetius. 
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CONTALNED IN A LETTER TO THE EDITORS AND Ttt^l'IIE 
SENIOR VETERINARIANS. 
By Mr. Kerr, V. S. Southampton. 
Gentlemen. 
I beg to acknowledge the continued gratification and infor- 
mation I experience in the perusal of your Journal. It has just 
entered on its fifth year ; and I rejoice to find, though it does not 
increase so rapidly in bulk as I could wish, its temper has be¬ 
come more uniform and mild. We should not, however, too 
strongly censure the desperate irritability of its temper in its 
earlier days : it was, I doubt not, disgusted with itself; and 
appeared as though hy her first inspiration to inhale all the de¬ 
gradation of her ancestors and present generation : she has, not¬ 
withstanding, respired them with as much mildness and gentle¬ 
ness as could be expected, knowing full well that she must have 
imbibed the disposition of the two by whom she was begotten,— 
two fully and acutely sensible that they are members of a 
wretchedly degraded profession—laudable in itself, and requiring 
all those qualifications which are so justly appreciated in the 
members of the medical profession. 
In its early days it seemed that mild and nutritious food 
was incompatible with its nature : it will now, however, I feel 
confident, convert all that is proferred from our graduated mem¬ 
bers into healthy chyle, which, during its general circulation, 
will powerfully tend to improve the condition of us all; for it 
matters not how clear its brain, or how great the capability for 
improvement, without nutritious food, which is more particu¬ 
larly indicated in growing animals, it must decline : let me, then, 
intreat, which I urgently do, from my brother veterinarians. 
