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which the treatment 1 have mentioned does not answer so well as 
in the generality of cases. When the cough is particularly sore, 
and laryngitis the prominent symptom, then the ether drink ap¬ 
pears to occasion so much suffering that its administration becomes 
objectionable if not dangerous. The horse resists violently, foams 
at the mouth, coughs spasmodically, and breaks into profuse sweats; 
consequently it becomes prudent to change the treatment. The 
calomel in frequent doses I persevere with ; but instead of the 
usual drink, I give half a drachm of the extract of belladonna 
rubbed down in two or four ounces of water, every third hour; 
and this quantity I do not find produces any unpleasant conse¬ 
quences ; but in two or three days the affection yields, nourishing 
food not being denied. 
I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Edward Mayhew. 
16, Spring-street, Westbourne-terrace. 
PROFESSOR SIMONDS’ LECTURE. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir,— MAY I beg the favour of you to insert the following re¬ 
marks in the forthcoming Number of your excellent publication ? 
I am rather surprised, considering the importance of the subject, 
that no notice was taken in your last of the Lecture delivered upon 
“ Pleuro-Pneumonia” by Professor Simonds before the members 
of the Royal Agricultural Society, at their meeting at Norwich*. 
Being present at the time, and having heard the lecture, I feel 
that I should not be doing myself justice were I to remain longer 
silent upon the subject (having last year had the honour of gaining 
the Society’s Prize for the best essay upon the disease in question), 
as the learned Professor in his address offered opinions upon its 
nature which were totally opposed to those expressed in my essay. 
It is not my intention to attempt any thing like a report of the 
Professor’s lecture, but merely to confine what few remarks I am 
anxious to make to those portions of it which are directly opposed 
to my views; and I think I shall not shoot very wide of the mark 
if I say, those of the majority of the medical public at large. 
Professor Simonds, after giving a very elaborate and prolonged 
description of the respiratory and circulatory systems, proceeded to 
* Quite the contrary. Mr. Waters will see (in our present Number) that 
we have availed ourselves of the earliest opportunity of printing “ The Lec¬ 
ture and shall feel happy to have his consent to publish a corrected version 
(if correction it needs) of his “ Prize Essay.”— Ed. Yet. 
