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gentleman so graduated. It is certainly not for a moment to be doubted 
that the Montreal Board of Examiners (although, apparently, not un- 
piccable, vide Review, page 94) acted in this, as in other matters, con¬ 
scientiously. The graduate himself, too, it is hoped, will endeavor to 
elevate his chosen profession in other ways than by writing disparagingly 
of his professional brethern. 
In regaid to matriculation examination, I believe I am correct in 
stating, that Professor Buckland examines all students entering the On¬ 
tario College. 
But remarks derogatory to other institutions I would wish to leave 
for those to make who find them congenial to their tastes. 
Remembering our motto, it is earnestly to be hoped that all gentle¬ 
men will endeavor to unite, instead of to sow discord in the ranks of 
our profession. This continent offers a noble field for the efforts of 
all. It we are, as a profession, to occupy the proud position which is 
our right, it will not be by devoting our energies to disingenuous criti¬ 
cism of others (nor by endeavoring to class quadratic equations as a 
branch of arithmetic), but by each doing his duty in his own sphere. 
Vis unita fortior. 
WHAT ELSE IS IT, BUT VILLAINY? 
By A. Liautard, M. D. V. S. 
I will leave the reader to answer the question, and limit myself to part 
of the history of a case, which, from its beginning, has proved to me an 
unusually interesting one.* 
Every one acquainted with the anatomy and pathology of the gut¬ 
tural pouches knows, that in case of purulent collections in these cavi¬ 
ties, relief, often peimanent, is obtained by the operation of hyoverte- 
brotomy the puncture of the pouches in one of the three parts of their 
extent, middle, upper or lower extremity, as the case may be. This case, 
at first, came once more, to confirm that result—though it has not been 
without much thought on our part, and, above all, much suffering on 
the part of the animal. I will be as brief as possible: 
About the 23d of last March, I was requested by the Superintendent 
of one of the railroads of this city to visit “ an animal who had some 
t rouble abou t her throat.” At my call, I found a handsome, dappled 
* We Wl11, in our next > & ive the whole report, with its termination. 
