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the latter, 4th June, 1853. “A Veterinary surgeon” has 
good right to complain of such misapplication of science; 
not that the physicians are so much to blame as the pro- 
prietors of the Gardens who sent for human doctors to 
attend sick brutes. However much we may agree in principle, 
in practice we are as wide apart as the poles. Indeed, it is 
proverbial that no class of men know so little about horse and 
cattle practice as surgeons. And well may they, since the 
medicines that purge and vomit, and sweat, and give ease and 
sleep to their patients, are to ours perfectly inert. For in- 
stance, a man will purge from an ounce of salts, or ten grains 
of jalap or rhubarb, or an ounce of castor oil, not one of which 
medicaments will, in any dose , take the slightest effect on a 
horse. Then again, a horse cannot vomit at all, neither can 
he be made by medicine to sweat. How it was anywise 
within the scope of possibility or probability for any or all of 
these medical gentlemen called to attend on a sick lion, to 
adapt or metamorphose their practice of medicine to his case, 
let it have been what it may, we have yet to learn. The 
case of disease in a lion , one out of all routine of practice, is 
enough to puzzle a Veterinary surgeon, let alone a surgeon. 
However, the Gardens have lost their “Jupiter,” and well the 
proprietors deserve to be so served ; though the brute king’s 
demise will be mourned by all his subjects within the 
demesne of the Gardens, to say nothing of the remorse of the 
Committee of Governors. — Ed. Vet. 
THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
To those of our readers who may not have any very clear 
notions about military tactics, and yet may feel desirous of 
learning how horses engaged in such scenes are apt to fare, 
and who live at too great a distance from Chobham, in Surrey, 
to afford them much, if any, chance of “ seeing the camp,” a 
few lines of illumination on this branch of military vete- 
rinarianism may not, at such a moment as this, be altogether 
out of place. The cavalry regiments engaged therein, a few 
weeks before the day of encampment, received a “ circular,” 
to prepare their horses for the change from in-doors to out- 
doors, by opening their stable windows and giving the air 
free access to them ; though it was manifest to those who 
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