438 review — blaine’s canine pathology. 
venge. I determined to die, as I had lived, without an equal ; 
and having again won the race, I sank down at the post in an 
agony which soon after put an end to my life.” When I had 
heard this horrid narrative, which indeed I remembered to be 
true, I turned about in honest confusion, and blushed that I was 
a man! 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Blaine’s Canine Pathology : being a Description of the Diseases of 
Dogs , Nosologically Arranged , with their Causes , Symptoms , and 
Curative Treatment ; and Practical Observations on the Breeding , 
Rearing , and Sanitary Treatment of these Animals. 5th Edit. 
Revised and Corrected by Thomas Walton Mayer, Member of 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. London. 
Longman and Co. 1851. 8vo, pp. 236. 
Since the demise of the Father of Canine Pathology*, 
opportunity has until now been wanting to us, to pay that 
tribute of respect to the memory of a man who devoted the 
early and most vigorous period of his lifetime to the study and 
prosecution of veterinary medicine, with a success which the 
works he has left behind him remain as standard literary proofs 
of; while the practice which he made in Wells-street, Oxford- 
street, and subsequently enjoyed, and afterwards sold, to Youatt, 
in Nassau-street, amounting as it did, when at its height, to 
£1500 per annum, sufficiently proclaim the estimation in which 
the name of Blaine was held by the public at large. In the 
hemisphere of veterinary constellation the name will long 
shine forth as a star of superior order. 
In the fourth and last of the Author’s own editions of the 
work before us, Blaine has given us his “ Professional Life 
* It is singular enough that we should have applied this very patronymic to 
our author, when, afterwards, we came across the following passages in his own 
works : — “ As no one, I believe, will attempt to dispute my claim to being the 
Father of Canine Pathology,” 3d Edit. “ As by common consent I appear to 
be considered the Father of Canine Pathology." 4th Edit. 
