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to direct tangible^ demonstrable truths, as simple, as plain, as 
interesting as the palpable principles of all other departments of 
natural philosophy. The study of nature principally distinguishes 
the scientific veterinary surgeon from the barbarous and igno¬ 
rant empiric, 
“ Whose souls proud science never taught to stray 
Far as the solar walk or milky M ay.’' 
It enables us to detect the crude notions which shallow pre¬ 
tenders have mistaken for principle, and to unravel the in¬ 
genious web in which sophistry sometimes contrives to envelope 
the plain conclusions of common sense. It teaches us to beware 
of the bright labyrinth through which hypotheses, when aided 
by eloquence, might lead us: for it is easy to theorize, and, 
unfortunately, there are too many who do so plausibly; like 
many a plant, which, under the fairest guise of colour and form, 
sometimes contains within its fibres the deadliest poison, as in 
the scorching plains of the east, where the Upas tree extends an 
alluring shade over the exhausted and unconscious traveller, who 
is soon to sink beneath its deadly atmosphere. 
Do not let us talk ourselves into the chimerical belief that we 
are perfect. Let us not deceive ourselves; ours is a profession 
which cannot be too assiduously cultivated, and perhaps the 
greatest pleasure its followers derive, is owing to the great variety 
and never-failing springs of knowledge which it presents: there 
is little to fear of those springs becoming dry, for to none, with 
more truth, than to the veterinary profession, can we apply the 
old saying, 
“ Miilli miilla sciunt. scd nemo omnia.” 
K. 
GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
A MAN, aged twenty-three, was admitted into St. Thomas's 
Hospital, with no other complaint than general indisposition and 
debility. A few days afterwards profuse diarrhoea supervened ; 
and when this w'as, with some difficulty, arrested, he began to 
