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the eye on the near side. The bone that was fractured was the 
superior maxillary, where it unites with the ossa unguis et malse. 
The depressed part was forced down upon the sinuses, and was about 
two inches long and one inch broad, and could not be drawn up. I 
therefore used the trephine, and removed the whole that was 
injured, being many other small pieces. I dressed it with tur¬ 
pentine liniment, and applied adhesive plaisters over the wound, 
and towards the latter period of cure injected a solution of supera¬ 
cetate of lead ; and in the course of a month it was all healed up, 
and perfectly well, and not the least symptom of glanders has 
yet shewed itself. 
FRACTURE OF THE THIGH OF A BULL. 
By the same. 
On the 29th April, 1831, a yearling bull fractured his near 
thigh obliquely, about three parts of the way down it. I strapped 
it up with splints and bandages, and put a charge about the 
part, and kept him quiet, without slinging him ; and in five weeks 
the bone was perfectly united, and he was turned out: indeed, in 
a month he put his leg down and walked on it, but with a degree 
of caution and care. He fed well all the time, and got up himself. 
ON VETERINARY REFORM. 
By Mr. A. Harris, F.S., Bromyard , Herefordshire. 
In a short letter which you published more than eighteen 
months since, I made some observations on the subject of re¬ 
formation in our profession, and have ever since purposed writing 
another on the same; to do which I have many times began, but 
some repugnant feelings have hitherto prevented the comple¬ 
tion. Not that I have ever for a moment doubted the need or pro¬ 
priety of such proceedings, for as I formerly thought any effort 
for the advancement of the profession creditable to a member, I 
have since thought it discreditable in those who do not, in some 
way, “ lend a hand” in the common cause; for I have, with 
painful feelings, observed in what way the heads of the profession 
have taken your (can it be doubted ?) honest endeavours, and read 
of “ enemies,” and “ wishing to drive them from their posts;” 
and although my contributions could not, 1 trust, lower the insti¬ 
tution in the eyes of the public, or its officers in those of the 
students, I would not willingly be considered as one, or as intend- 
