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to escape about four ounces of thick and greenish pus. I washed the 
cavity with carbolic solution. It discharged for a few days, but I kept 
it clean, and being a superficial abscess the discharge soon stopped and 
the cavity healed up. Now the animal is, as far as I can see, as well 
as ever. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
Editor Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir : I was not very much surprised to see the letter of Mr. 
Coleman in one of the last issues. Knowing that Professor Smith had 
been on a visit to Ottawa, and that he had expressed himself to some 
friends as being engaged in collecting material to refute my statements 
concerning his school ; but, lo! the mountain has conceived, and 
brought forth a tiny little mouse. 
Mr. Coleman says he received a reply “without a single allusion to 
the point at issue,” and charges me with “want of courtesy.” Here is 
the reply : 
“ Dear Coleman : I am out for the first time for a fortnight, hav¬ 
ing sustained a severe injury to my knee from my horse falling on my 
leg. * * * I received your letter in bed, or would have answered it 
sooner. You entirely mistake my meaning—the reflection is on the 
curriculum, not on the students. I think that is clear enough. You of 
course understand that it is a disagreeable task I have undertaken; but 
Mr. Smith has brought it on himself, why should he not have made some 
effort to meet the views of the profession ? Why persist in a course 
which no person having the interests of the profession at heart can 
endorse ? My remarks are calculated not to injure his school, but to 
better it, and no one would be more sorry than myself to injure him. 
We have long been friends. We should be friends, and if we are not, 
it certainly is not my fault. * * * * * Hoping that 
I may continue to count on your continued assistance, in doing what I 
know is our duty to ourselves, and those whose positions are influenced 
by what we do.” 
With regard to the second letter, if it ever reached me, it was when 
in bed, to which I had to return, and probably was forgotten or mislaid, 
as I have no recollection of receiving any second letter requiring a 
reply. For this oversight, of course, I gladly apologize. It may be 
necessary to explain my reason for making use of a conversational com- 
