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client that an essential change shall take place, this is accordingly 
commenced ; or if not, the merorganizing process commences even 
at the outset, and the consequence is, that all the three great con¬ 
stituents are met with in the chyle the moment the extraneous 
matters are separated by the action of the biliary secretion. 
ON THE COLLEGE VETERINARY PHARMACOPOEIA. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
M r. Vines, notin anew edition of his “Treatise on Glanders, ” 
but as a bonus to later purchasers (la little doubt the fairness of 
this to his subscribers), has given “a copy of the Pharmacopoeia 
in use at the Royal Veterinary College/’ As it is appended to a 
work that embodies his opinions on Glanders, I take it for granted 
that it is his pharmacopoeia as well as that of the college. He 
would not, in the former part of his work, claim our assent to his 
statements and reasonings, and close by giving us that which he 
knows we should reject as unchemical and absurd.- 
Being given us by a “Teacher of Anatomy and Physiology at 
the Royal Veterinary College,” I must receive it as authentic, 
and I thank Mr. Vines for putting us in possession of (that which 
must be interesting to every practitioner) the materia medica of 
the Royal Veterinary School. It is thus become,as all the opinions, 
and discoveries, and practice of the college should be, our com¬ 
mon property, and we have a right to scrutinize its worth, and to 
adopt or reject it as we think proper. 
We shall gradually, I hope, be put in possession of more of 
the good things of the college, and I am sure the college has 
many better things to give us than this Pharmacopoeia, if the 
heads of it were so disposed. Yet I fear it will be hope long de¬ 
ferred, and that which will almost make our hearts sick ; for 
common report says, that no little displeasure has been expressed 
at the escape of this document from among those archives which 
were never meant to greet the unhallowed eyes of mere pupils 
and private practitioners. Mr. Behrens is quite in a rage—his 
very hair stands on end. “ I told you,” he vociferates, “ that 
these fellows would, by and by, get at ‘ the secrets of the col¬ 
lege, and become more skilful, and thus interfere with the profits of 
the college.’ You remember how I w as attacked by those scoundrel 
editors of The Veterinarian for protesting against this, and for 
shutting the college doors in their faces, and those of the pack of 
practitioners. But what is the use of shutting the doors against 
them, if they, somehow or other, obtain possession of all our in- 
