REVIEW. 
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Southampton, says, “ It appears to me to be extremely desir- 
able, that, when any writer in The VETERINARAN takes up an 
important subject, for other writers to communicate their opi- 
nions and experience on that subject, before it is suffered to die 
away or cease to be impressed on public attention.” In the 
truth of this all must concur : if every one would faithfully put 
his experience upon record, a collation of facts, a concentration 
of knowledge, might be gained, the advantage of which would 
outweigh all other considerations in advancing the claims of 
the profession, the interests of employers, and the cause of 
humanity. 
Should these hasty remarks be thought worthy of a place in 
your Journal, and have the happy effect of rousing but one of 
those who have long “ slumbered and slept,” I shall be exceed- 
ingly gratified, and remain 
Your obedient servant. 
*** “ Non Yet.” has sent us his name. — E d. Yet. 
REYIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
/ / / 
Bulletin de la Societe Centrale de Medecine Yeterinaire, 
publie par les Soins de son Bureau, et redige, par M. H. 
Bouley, Secretaire Annual. Annees 1844-45-46 : Tom. Premier, 
Paris, Labe, 1827. Bulletin of the Central Society of Yeterinary 
Medicine, published under the Direction of its Committee, and the 
Editorship of M. H. Bouley, the Annual Secretary. For the 
Years 1844-5-6. Yol. I. Paris, Labe. 1847. 
The next paper, not in order, but to us in interest, we find 
in the volume before us, is one on what the French call La 
Gourme DES Chevaux; a disease, or rather family of diseases, 
to distinguish which we in our language possess no single word 
answering altogether so well to the French name gourme, as 
distemper. It is true that, in our character as men of 
science, distemper is a word we have long ago' banished 
from our nomenclature; at the same time it must be ad- 
mitted to be one which, like the French gourme, includes 
several cognate disorders having a sort of common origin and 
purpose, which we are unable otherwise to distinguish than by 
