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dition*, a kind of food is given which requires more exercise 
of the lungs, a greater proportion in the consumption of oxygen , 
and greater necessity for continued locomotion, in order to 
maintain a state approaching to health—the conditions ab¬ 
solutely requisite to effect development of carcass. These pre¬ 
requisites not kept in view, the result is a morbid deposition of 
fat; for the liver cannot dispose of this excess of carbon without 
interruption to its healthy function, or without mischief to its 
intricate structure. The amount of carbonic acid yielded at 
each respiration is limited by the capacity of the lungs for 
oxygen ; nor can more than a given amount of urea, or rather 
hippuric acid , be thrown off from the kidneys, which ingre¬ 
dient is, in fact, the vehicle of the surplus nitrogen necessary to 
be separated from the circulating blood. To each organ, its 
wonted economy, its limited healthy operation. There is a stop 
in the healthy chemistry of digestion, and when the products 
vary from their accustomed nature in some of the important 
organs of secretion, they are arrested as either unfit to be elimi¬ 
nated, or are sometimes thrown off in the excretions. 
J. A. 
THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1852. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The case of “ Huggins v. Froom,” as copied into our pre¬ 
sent Number under the head of “ Veterinary Jurisprudence,” 
presents features which, however the law may regard them, 
are by no means reconcileable in a pathological point of view. 
Medical reasoning cannot account for the alleged different, if 
not opposite, effects of two similar compositions, both containing 
arsenic, similarly used, under similar circumstances; and still 
less can any refinement or extension of such reasoning explain 
why that composition which contains in proportion the less 
quantity of arsenic should be the one declared to be harmful, 
and poisonous even, while the other should remain compa¬ 
ratively a safe remedy. And what renders these facts still 
* “ If young and healthy cows be brought from the country into the city, and 
confined in stalls attached to dairies, they at first become fat and sleek, but after 
some time several of them are observed to grow thin, become unhealthy, and if 
not speedily removed, fall into a state of marasmus. After death, tubercles are 
found in several textures of the carcass.’’— Andral. 
