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TITLE OF VETERINARY SURGEON. 
PURE FRESH AIR AND VENTILATION. 
To discuss the question of pure air in the midst of all the 
vitiated emanations that take place in smoky Manchester, 
methinks the reader may liken to a myth ; but what I mean 
is the purest air that is obtainable by us. I have said, in an 
earlier part of this paper, that the membranes and organs 
concerned in the function of respiration, when under an attack 
of acute fever are highly impressionable ; that they will receive 
or imbibe with avidity influences of a restorative character, 
with as much readiness as influences of an opposite character. 
This thought is one “full of beauty.” A proper restorative 
essence being passed over, and absorbed by the irritated 
membrane, enables it to effect a change in the system without 
any display. It produces its action secretly, silently, and in 
that inscrutable manner with which God has endowed nature. 
Supply your patient, then, I say with abundance of this 
restorative element, cold fresh air. It allays nervous 
action, cools the blood, and fully meets all the indispensable 
conditions required. It is demonstrated that more oxygen 
exists, and consequently is absorbed, from cold air than from 
warm air. If you do this systematically, you will find every 
effort of nature will be towards the restoration of health. 
Supply him therefore freely, I repeat, with cold air, but at 
the same time see that his feet, ears, and skin be warm, so 
that the heat of the body is not allowed to fly off. All that 
nature demands from us is, that we remove every impediment 
out of her way, and facilitate her acts; and with this object 
in view, every sick box should be provided with two small 
inlets for fresh air, at different or opposite places on the 
ground floor. If this be only a plate of six inches square, 
perforated with six or eight small holes, it will be quite 
sufficient to keep the air sweet and fresh for one horse, pro¬ 
vided there is also an egress at the top. 
(To be continued .) 
ON THE TITLE OF VETERINARY SURGEON. 
By C. S. Green, M.R.C.V.S., Winchester. 
In the October number of the Veterinarian, I was pleased 
to see the subject of the title of veterinary surgeon again 
brought forward. Having been twenty years in practice, 1 
