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The specific character of the above remedy can easily be 
proved by placing in the stable, near to one of the drains, a small 
quantity of charcoal, say two inches in depth, on a square piece 
of tin of about eighteen inches in size ; after an exposure of a 
few minutes, an analysis would prove that this charcoal had 
absorbed its own weight of this deleterious gas, and if this 
intermixture were used in the garden or conservatory, its bene¬ 
ficial effects would be manifest to the most casual observer. 
The Times. 
THE VETERINARY ART IN AMERICA. 
It is the intention of Messrs. Mason and Turner to open a 
veterinary school, during the ensuing winter, for the reception 
of students, and to deliver a course of lectures on the Anatomy 
and Pathology of the Horse, with dissections. Further parti¬ 
culars with respect to this course will be shortly issued.— Mon¬ 
treal, May, 1851. 
FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION. 
ONTuesda)' morning, at a little after six o’clock, two gentle¬ 
men were riding together in a field near Sherbrooke-street, 
when one of the horses shied, and in shying came in contact 
with the other one, both horses falling to the ground with their 
riders. One of the riders extricated himself from the fallen 
animal with some difficulty, and on examining his horse, found 
that the thigh bone of the off hind leg was fractured transversely, 
about two inches above the hock joint; while, strange to say, 
the superior pastern joint of the fore-leg on the same side was 
dislocated, the dislocation having been accomplished with such 
force that the end of the cannon-bone was forced through the 
capsular ligament of the joint and the skin, protruding for about 
five inches, the sesamoid bones remaining attached to the liga¬ 
ments. The poor brute tried to rise, and several times dug the 
end of the bone into the turf, groaning frightfully under its 
agony. Mr. Mason, V. S., being sent for, the horse was imme¬ 
diately destroyed, and the leg cut off. This is a most extra¬ 
ordinary and unusual accident, and the curious in such matters 
may see the limb at the Veterinary Hospital, in St. Urbain- 
street, where it has been put into spirits .—Montreal Courier, 
June 1851. 
KIND’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. 
At the last meeting of the committee of management of this 
hospital a letter was read from Mr. W. H. C. Plowden, one of 
the directors of the East India Company, announcing his inten- 
