REVIEW BLAINE^S CANINE PATHOLOGY. 439 
from which, as the edition may not be in the hands of all our 
readers, we extract the following interesting summary: — Blaine 
was educated with his maternal grandfather, “ a dignitary of 
the Cathedral of St. David’s the Bishop of the diocese be- 
coming his Godfather, on condition that he was to be brought 
up to the church. His father’s principles, which were dis- 
senting, frustrating this design, it was agreed between the two 
parents that the ars medendi should be young Blaine’s calling. 
At fourteen he was placed “ with an eminent practitioner in 
Buckinghamshire ; and at twenty-one was entered a pupil at 
the two Borough Hospitals,” under Dr. Haighton, remaining 
there three years, “ the last of which was passed under the 
roof of this friend of his family:” employing himself during this 
advantageous sojourn in assisting the Doctor in his physio- 
logical experiments, making dissections and drawings for him, 
&c. About this time St. Bel, who had come over to this 
country, was wanting an assistant teacher of anatomy and de- 
monstrator ; which, being offered, was accepted by young 
Blaine. This diverted the course of his study ; although, after 
he had quitted the College, he resumed the practice of human 
medicine “ for a twelvemonth in Sussex.” He then returned 
to veterinary medicine, practising and teaching it at Lewes, 
where he met “ with much notice and encouragement.” “ Im- 
provident management,” however, forced him back again into 
the practice of human surgery in a regiment of militia; whence 
he was translated, at the recommendation of General Gwynne, 
“ always a kind and zealous friend” to him, to a surgeoncy in 
a troop of Horse Artillery, then stationed at Woolwich, where 
he served under Dr. Rollo. Here he remained three years ; 
and then resigned, and set up as a surgeon “ in the neigh- 
bourhood of Queen-square, London.” Even here, however, 
the latent spark, which had smouldered but was not ex- 
tinguished, again shewed itself by the employment of the hours 
his professional avocations left him in preparing and publishing 
his Anatomy of the Horse, in folio numbers, with both coloured 
and plain plates. Not long had Blaine been thus settled in 
town, when, in consequence of “ the death of a near relative 
investing him with considerable property,” he relinquished his 
