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and tlic nerves were divided on both sides of both legs, necessarily above 
the fellock, so far as can be already ascertained, with good effect. 
'I'he cases of distemper in the dog were all accompanied by diarrhoea, 
difficult to subdue, and rapidly wasting the strength of the animal. Four 
of the patients died. The mucous membrane of the bowels, in this disease 
of almost general inffammation of the mucous surfaces, is the one that 
usually suffers most in the latter part of autumn and the beginning of winter. 
It is singular that only one case of epilepsy, and that not in a distempered 
dog, occurred. 
The full proportion of cases of rheumatism occurred, distinguished by the 
stiffness of the animal’s gait—his crying when he moved, or when hejwas lifted 
by the fare-legs, or the loins were pressed upon, and the belly being pecu¬ 
liarly drawn up and tense, and corded ; the disease, however, quickly dis¬ 
appeared after the use of a warm bath, and the exhibition of “the castor 
oil mixture''—castor oil, syrup of buckihorn, and syrup of white poppies, in 
the proportion of 3, 2, and 1. Y. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
To W. Pkrcivall, Esq. 
Sir, —Although not having the honour of a personal acquaintance with 
you, 1 have taken the liberty of wTitiiig, to ask your advice with regard to 
my anatomical pursuits. I at present stand still amidst a variety of nomen¬ 
clatures; and it being evident there must be an unnecessary expenditure 
of time to acquire them all, I am at an entire loss to know to which to give 
the preference. Now, sir, provided I was to entirely devote my attention 
to that excellent and complete w’ork of your’s, will that nomenclature cor¬ 
respond wdth what will be required of me at the College ; or, in other 
words, w'ould a perfect knowledge of that suffice without entering upon 
any more? You are, no doubt, well aware, sir, how exceedingly per¬ 
plexing it is to the mind of a student to charge the memory with a confu¬ 
sion of terms for the same object. Now, sir, shonld you not consider this 
request too impertinent, have the kindness, through the medium of The 
Veterinarian (to which publication I have been a subscriber from the 
commencement), to give me this information; and, at the same time, if 
you could recommend a .system of pathology, which is adapted for the 
veterinary student (either in French or English), I should fee myself 
under an obligation to you, which I should not speedily forget. 
I have the honour to be, sir, your humble and obedient servant, 
John Charlis. 
Vroydon^ Nov. 15, 1832. 
P.S. Might I take the liberty of again asking a favour ; tliat is, if tliere are 
any collateral branches of study which would facilitate my anatomical ac¬ 
quirements, would you, sir, have the kindness merely to mention them? 
Mr. PJs Answer. 
In the construction of the systematic nomenclature introduced in my 
“ Anatomy of the Horse,”'it has been a consideration with me to mal^e 
the names accord with those in use at the Veterinary College and the me¬ 
dical schools in general in London; in order, thereby, to render the work 
as useful and facile a reference as possible to the veterinary student. 
With the hope of rendering the book still more extensively serviceable, I 
have, in the “ Muscular System,” inserted the French as well as the Latin 
(or Englisii) names. 
