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would be the estimation in which they would be held hereafter. 
Knowledge has been aptly compared to light, and none covet 
darkness but the evil and designing ; and he who contemns 
knowledge loves not power, for “ knowledge is power.” Re- 
member, too, that the moralist has poetically and truly said, “If 
the spring put forth no blossom, in summer there will be no 
beauty, and in autumn no fruit : so, if youth be trifled away 
without improvement, manhood will be contemptible, and old 
age miserable.” 
THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1851. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. Cicero. 
We feel unwilling to allow the dying embers of the influenza 
among horses of the past summer and passing autumn to go 
quite out without a remark or two from us in addition to some 
we have already made : any we may submit on this occa- 
sion having reference in particular to the excellent practical 
paper on the subject in our present Number by Mr. Gloag. The 
paper professes to be no more than an account of symptoms, 
presumptive causes, and results of treatment, as they severally 
occurred under Mr. Gloag’s steady and intelligent observation ; 
and, as a plain narrative of facts, carefully collected and faith- 
fully reported, the account is a very valuable one to us ; but it 
is rendered of more value still by being interspersed with de- 
ductions which it will become our duty to examine. 
So all but universal was the prevalence of the disease in the 
barrack in which it broke out, that out of ninety-four horses in 
previous health but twenty-nine escaped ; and we quite concur 
in the observation this has led Mr. Gloag to make — that the dis- 
ease prevails with more generality, and we may add, intensity, 
in situations where numbers of horses are congregated together : 
the state of the atmosphere of the locality or stable being one 
apparent cause for this. 
Another cause, according to Mr. Gloag’s conceptions, is to be 
found in contagion ; a point on which we must pause awhile, 
since we cannot refrain from entertaining doubts in our own mind, 
