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ever my solicitors attached no weight. It is most important 
to the profession that a point like this should be settled. 
I should state, in addition, that I offered A. P—, Esq., 
to pay the damage, to be estimated by Professor Sewell, or 
by any other veterinary surgeon of undeniable character and 
skill. This offer, however, was declined; Mr. P— demanding 
forty pounds. 
The coachman, in the first instance, admitted, on being 
questioned, that the horse shied at “the — omnibuses,” 
which are constantly passing and repassing the road the 
horse must unavoidably take in his way home, a circumstance 
of which my men were not forewarned, although this was the 
first time the horse had ever entered my shop. 
ENLARGED (THYMUS) GLANDS IN A QUEY. 
By William Lyon, M.R.C.V.S., Forfar. 
To the Editor of ‘ The Veterinarian 
Sir,— I beg to forward for your inspection a tumour, 
being the largest of two which were removed on the 15th 
inst., from under the cervical vertebrae of a yearling quey, 
and which, although now considerably shrunk and dry, 
weighs forty-nine ounces, and measures twenty-three inches 
in its greater circumference. It rested upon the oesophagus, 
trachea, blood-vessels, and sternal muscles, excepting when 
the animaPs head w as depressed; so much so, that had 
the same degree of pressure been made on the gullet by a 
tumour existing elsewhere, as within the chest, permanent 
hove, &c., w’ould have been produced. 
The operation consisted in an incision through the integu¬ 
ments of the off-side of the neck, over and parallel to the 
course of the vessels, which exposed part of the levator 
humeri; the next incision being made right through that 
muscle, in the direction of its fibres, which brought to view" 
part of the great tumour, exposing also the sub-scapulo-hyoid 
muscle, which was considerably but favorably displaced 
by the pressure of the lesser tumour, which inclined to the 
off-side : the remaining incisions were made w ith care 
through numerous ligamentous-like bands and cellular 
membrane by which the tumour was attached to the inter¬ 
vertebral and other muscles. The lesser tumour, which was 
