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LETTERS TO A STUDENT. 
'‘Case III.—A horse got a draught, and died—mind!— with¬ 
out treatment, on the fourth day : his breathing was very quick 
from beginning to end. 
“Case IV,—Another horse got a draught,coughed violently, 
received no treatment but one bleeding, and died on the sixteenth 
day. 
“ Case V.—A horse got a draught. Next day he had bron¬ 
chitis. He was put under treatment. He did not lie down 
until the nineteenth day, but his recovery was perfect.’’ 
I will not trouble your readers with a history of the other 
cases : I will take these as, what I believe them to be, a fair 
sample of the whole. 
Now, what has the Professor proved by these cases ? Cer¬ 
tainly, not that the drinks destroyed these horses; but he has 
proved that the first and last quoted cases were put under proper 
treatment, and both recovered ; and that the other cases, namely, 
the second, third, and fourth, were most shamefully and cruelly 
neglected, and inconsequence of that cruel neglect, they all died. 
But what has this to do with drenching ? 
I had been anxiously waiting for the October number of your 
Journal, hoping that some one more competent than myself would 
have taken notice of Mr. Stewart’s letter ; but as no one has done 
so, may I, as an humble individual, venture to hope, that you 
may be able to find room in your valuable Journal for these 
remarks ? I do assure you, that I have but one motive in coming 
forward, and that is the lively interest I feel in the onward pro¬ 
gress of veterinary science. 
LETTERS TO A STUDENT. 
Hj/ Professor Stewart, Glasgow, 
No. V.— About Drenches. 
Notice has been given to me that my last letter was worse 
than ordinary; that it was deficient in details; that, in some 
places it was obscure, in some erroneous, in others impertinent; 
that such an exhibition of accidents implied bad practice; that 
there must be a screw loose, something fundamentally wrong, 
and so forth. 
I crave leave to think that I am not over-well used. The last 
letter, in my opinion, was as good as any of the others. The de¬ 
tails, I admit, were not minute. The nature and date of the ill¬ 
ness, the age, sex, colour, and proprietor of the patient were not 
