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repute at some head-quarters. It is my opinion that deep 
firing will make some lame horses sound when nothing else 
will; and this is very desirable: yet, since neither butter nor 
cheese is made from them, I do not suppose that very many 
horses are eaten by bipeds in this country. I could send you 
such a list of cures as would astonish Mr. Turner himself, 
and when all other remedies had failed: almost all, diseases of 
the extremities. 
To the Editor of i The Veterinarian .’ 
Chingford; Nov. 7, 1852. 
Sir, — I beg leave, in reply to Mr. A. C. Shaw, to state, that 
I have not seen his pamphlet, or your review of it, or would 
have been happy to have acknowledged it, as the motto of 
the f Centipede’ is “Omnibus” 
The words are in italics, preceded by Mr. Gloag’s name, 
and the passage show r s it to be a quotation from his novel, 
direct experiments, and not mine. I will take the oppor¬ 
tunity of including Mr. Shaw’s name in it, or that of any other 
gentleman which I may have omitted ; albeit, this is excus¬ 
able, having been many years absent from England. In 
1848, I was in Holstein. Yours, obediently, 
T. J. Hodgson. 
W. Percivall, Esq. 
Foreign Department. 
ANALYSIS OF THE BLOOD OF A HORSE AFTER DIVISION 
OF HIS PNEUMOGASTRIC NERVES. 
By M. E. Clement, Chef de Service of Chymistry at the Alfort School. 
The conclusion M. Clement came to, in 1850-1, from 
certain inquiries he instituted into the double function of 
respiration and nutrition, led to the laying down, as facts, 
that, whenever respiration was performed normally, arterial 
blood invariably contained more water and more fibrine, but 
less albumen than venous blood; and that, on the contrary, 
whenever section of the pneumogastric nerves destroyed the 
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