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VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
says he to those whom, in good faith, we have lately endea¬ 
voured to conciliate? “I feel always anxious to know what is 
going forward about the heart, 1 have often said, if the pulse 
would beat in accordance there, we should march with a firm 
and steady step in the path of improvement, and that, too, by 
the surest and most unerring guide—a communion of practical 
facts.'’ 
■ Let those “ who observe a profound mystery in every thing 
they do, and affect to despise all knowledge but their own,” 
and others who are averse that “ veterinary science should be 
exposed to the public gaze,” read and seriously ponder his ad¬ 
vice to, and his censure on them ; and let all remember, and strive 
to fulfil his parting wish and “ hope;” let envy, hatred, malice, 
and all uncharitableness,” cease among us; let not these bad pas¬ 
sions find a resting-place among our brethren; let us all join in 
one desirable object—improvement; and let us recollect that 
union is strength.” 
The tongues of dying men 
Enforce attention like deep harmony. 
Yea, from the table of our memory 
We’ll wipe away— 
■ ■ --all forms, all pressures past, 
And thy commandments all alone shall live 
Within the book and volume of our brain— 
Unmixed with baser matter. 
Mr, JAMES WATT, of Edinburgh, 
Our readers will recollect a case of perforation of the nasal 
bone, in suspected glanders, reported by this gentleman in the 
fourth volume of The Veterinarian. He was a young man 
of very promising abilities ; he had a good business, and might 
have done exceedingly well; he had many good qualities about 
him, private and .social—and he might have been prosperous, re¬ 
spected, beloved ; but of late years he had mixed too freely with 
convivial society, and his constitution sunk under the baneful 
influence of the habits which he had insensibly but irrevocably 
formed. Another lesson, and of another kind, for the young 
practitioner. 
