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CORRESPONDENCE. 
In the article which I have in mincl the animal treated had 
a new vein, the jugularis. I will cite a paragraph : “ first I 
bled from the jugularis.” Now I fail to find a vein of that 
name either in Chaveau, Gray, Weiss, Percival, Jeancon, 
Webster, Dunglison or Hobbin. Dunglison, in speaking of 
jugularis, says it is the throat, or at least calls it the throat be¬ 
cause the yonk is attached there. 
Now I would like to inquire what part of the throat the 
animal was bled from. If the animal was bled from the jugu¬ 
lar why not say so, and not mystify us poor quacks and horse 
doctors ? 
In this same article potassium salts were used. As there 
are over twenty kinds of potassium salts would it not be a 
little more to the point to know which particular salt was 
given ? Perhaps as it required digitalis and stimulants for a 
weak heart, after the removal of eight quarts of the life-giving 
fluid, the whole list of potassium salts might have been given. 
Again, in the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veteri¬ 
nary Archives , for January, is an article on removal of tumors : 
page twenty-nine. The operation, I have no doubt, was a most 
beautiful one and was done with the greatest skill, but when it 
comes to dissecting the penis out of the arch of the ischium 
to its free portion with its sheath by three rapid cuts, it was 
at least bold, if not very poor surgery. It looks as though it 
would have been better surgery to have made six slow cuts 
and saved what skin there could have been saved, and it 
might have taken only seven weeks to have healed it up in¬ 
stead of two months. We are also informed that the hemor¬ 
rhage was trifling. Undoubtedly the horses of the Hub are 
anatomically constituted to accommodate the instructors of 
anatomy in that section of the country. It seems, however, 
that Chaveau, Percival, McBride and others have slight ideas 
that it is quite vascular in that region, but it is not supposed 
that a village practitioner should find the same anatomical 
construction that they do in the Hub. 
In the same journal, page sixty-one, is another swelled head. 
In the letter addressed to Huidekoper in regard to his resig¬ 
nation as Veterinary Professor, the writer showed his want of 
