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hurried conclusions on the alleged efficacy of this novel and 
powerful remedy, we cannot withhold our thanks to “Caustic” 
and Mr. Lord for the enterprising character of their therapeutic 
experiments. Whenever tetanus may shew his grim and ghastly 
face to us again, we promise them we will meet him with a 
full bottle of chloroform ; and we trust there are many in the 
profession beside ourselves who will be prepared for the awful 
visitant, armed with the same formidable instrument. Meanwhile, 
we would refer such of our readers as may desire more information 
on the subject to an analagous case, viz. that of “ Idiopathic Te¬ 
tanus, cured by Inhalation of Ether,” at the French Veterinary 
College at Alfort. They will find it reported in The Veteri¬ 
narian for January last, at page 21. 
At the last Meeting of the Council, notice was given for the 
continuance of the suspension of the By-Law on Apprenticeship; 
and pending the result of competent legal investigation which is 
being instituted, such By-Law will not, in all probability, be put 
in operation. 
MISCELLANEA. 
The Veterinary Art in Turkey. 
In a number of the Berlin Veterinary Journal for 1846 (Maga - 
zin fur die Gesammle Thierheilkunde), is a long account of the 
veterinary art as practised in Turkey, with a full expose of the 
indolence, ignorance, and superstition of the Turks, by Godlewky, 
who was sent by the Prussian government to found a veterinary 
school at Constantinople. The greatest difficulty proved to be the 
dissecting of dead animals, to which the Mahometan religion is 
strongly opposed. At first he was obliged to lecture to his class 
through the (dragoman) interpreter. Another peculiarity of the 
Turks is, they will not have their old, worn-out, useless, or crippled 
horses, destroyed; but rather turn them loose in the street or on the 
roads to shift for themselves : a situation in which they are often 
reduced to skeletons, if not attacked and devoured by the troops 
of hungry inasterless dogs infesting the streets and neighbourhood 
of Constantinople. Our tip-top shoeing-smith would also be sur¬ 
prised to know, that the Turkish shoeing-smith takes up his sta¬ 
tion at the corners of the street, like the shoeblacks in Paris, with 
tin-like bar-shoe, of all sizes, to fit or not fit any foot; and, with 
his nails and tools, thus shoes any horse that comes. All horses 
are shod, young and old. Even the oxen are shod which are used 
for agriculture and draught; no horses ever being used in harness 
those of the ambassadors and other Franks excepted. 
