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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Traite de l* Organization du Pied du Cheyal, comprenant 
l’ Etude de la Structure, des Fonctions et des Maladies 
de cet Organe. Par M. H. Bouley, Professor de Clinique et 
de Chirurgie & l’Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d’Alfort, Secretaire 
General de la Societe Nationale et Centrale de Medecine Vete- 
rinaire. Avec un Atlas de 34 Planches Lithographiees, desinees 
d’apres Nature par M. Edm. Pochet. Paris, 1851. 
Pas de pied, pas de cheval. — Lafosse. 
No foot, no horse. — Jeremiah Bridges. 
Treatise on the Organization of the Foot of the Horse, com- 
prising the Study of the Structure, Functions and Diseases 
of that Organ. By M. Bouley. With an Atlas of 34 Litho- 
graphic Plates. Paris, 1851. Parts I & II. Fcap. 8vo, pp. 32. 
On no subject have veterinary writers in general spent so 
much thought and study and time — on none have veterinary 
surgeons, in the course of their practice, bestowed so much 
casual observation and experiment — as on the foot of the horse. 
Nor is the reason for this concentration of time and talent dif- 
ficult to be understood when we come to consider the value — 
the sine qua non utility, indeed — of the foot to such an animal 
as the horse. Of what use is a horse that cannot “go V * — “ No 
Foot, no Horse,” was the title given by Jeremiah Bridges, to 
work “on the Anatomy of the Foot;” Pas de pied, pas de 
cheval, said Lafosse after him. And even supposing there were 
not contained in this quaint truism ample apology for the bestowal 
of so much reflection and pains-taking, yet, when we came to 
take the foot to pieces, might enough that was curious and at- 
tractive be found within the casement of the hoof to induce any 
philosophic mind to set inquiry on foot with a view of invest- 
igating the structure and economy of parts to appearance so 
novel and interesting. Certainly, no organ surpasses the foot 
in beauty of adaptation and variety of appliances to the several 
purposes required of it. It has to sustain the weight of the 
body; to move under that weight; to act as a spring every 
time the weight comes upon it ; to feel the ground it treads 
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