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evening, when she altered suddenly for the worse, and died 
some time during the night. In the morning I opened the body, 
in the presence of Mr. Ellcott, who particularly requested me 
not to examine her until he,came. I found the viscera of the 
abdomen very much inflamed, particularly the large intestines: 
after carefully removing them, I examined their contents, and 
found lodged in the cells (of the colon in particular) a quantity 
of indigestible matter, consisting of stones, sand, nails, glass, 
and several pieces of lead and wire. The man who looked after 
her informed me, that she had been a very ravenous eater, and 
that he had no doubt but she had taken the stones and sand 
witli her water, as they exactly corresponded with them at the 
pond where she had been in the habit of drinking. The other 
matter appears to have been taken at different times with her 
food, as her corn had been kept in the same place with some 
broken cucumber frames. The near lung was very much dis¬ 
eased, and there were about two quarts of fluid in the near side 
of the chest: the heart and off lung appeared perfectly healthy. 
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THE NETHERLANDS. 
For the following sketch of the Flemish school we are in¬ 
debted to Mr. Dick, of Edinburgh, who has favoured us with 
the copy of a letter addressed to him by an intelligent friend :— 
Utrecht, 25th Nov. 1830. 
My dear Sir, 
From the interest which you take in every thiilg connected 
with veterinary science, and the enthusiasm with which you 
prosecute its investigation, I feel confident that I shall confer no 
small favour upon you, by communicating to you an account of 
the veterinary establishment of this place. I have enjoyed every 
facility of acquiring a correct knowledge of the subject, through 
the kindness of the principal professor, Dr. Numan, who has not 
only given me every information I required, but who also directed 
the superintendant to conduct me through the whole institution, 
and thus afforded me the further means of minute and accurate 
investigation. You will make allowance for my ignorance of the 
science itself, and any small inaccuracies into which this may 
inadvertently betray me. 
The attention of the public in this country was first parti¬ 
cularly drawn towards the veterinary art in consequence of a 
cattle-pest , which was first imported into Holland in i 711, 
but which proved exceedingly destructive in its effects towards 
