382 ON VETERINARY NOMENCLATURE. 
the Veterinary Surgeon. Moreover, the attempt to expose a 
nefarious system, which possibly may be carried on to a limited 
extent in certain fashionable places of resort, can only incur 
a feeling of resentment among those persons with whom we must 
necessarily come in contact, until gentlemen condescend to be- 
come their own grooms and the familiar companions of assuming 
veterinary surgeons. 
However, if our object in practising the veterinary art should 
be professional reputation, it can be obtained by the exercise of 
those attainments which enable us to recognise, successfully 
treat disease, and perform the operations in veterinary surgery 
with such manual dexterity as will ensure the safety of the 
animal ; and, with the additional qualification of as much com- 
mon sense as will enable us to pay such a degree of familiarity 
and respect to all classes of society as will be suitable to their 
rank and station, we shall have no occasion to have recourse 
to any principle of dishonesty in order to become extolled by the 
grooms, or to obtain the respect which is due to our social 
position. 
I am, Sir, your’s truly. 
*** We beg to apologise to Mr. Brown for the omission of 
his name in the list of “ Contributors to the Third Series” of 
The VETERINARIAN, as well as to any other gentleman to whom 
the same omission may have occurred. The keeping of the list 
is an affair we have commonly left in our printer’s hands, though 
we have no right to hold him responsible for its fulfilment. — E d. 
Vet. 
THE MEANING OF THE APPELLATIONS COURBATURE 
AND BLACK QUARTER EXPLAINED. 
By William Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., Dockhead. 
Sir, — I AM not surprised that an English veterinary surgeon 
should be at a loss to know what courbature means, since 
it appears plain only to any one acquainted with the old 
names of French farriery. The word is derived from coeurba- 
ture or corbature, beating of the heart ; and in the Veterinary 
Dictionary of Lafosse wefindit thusexplained: — u COURBATURE 
(la) est a peu pres la meme maladie que la pleurisie : c’est une 
inflammation du poumon, causee par une fatigue outree ou un 
travail force. Le cheval a une fievre considerable, tient la tete 
basse, est degoute, respire avec peine, tousse, et jette par le nez 
