REVIEW. 87 
His Honour said, the plaintiff should not have kept the 
horse for an indefinite period. 
Mr. Carter said that if his Honour had any doubt on the 
matter, he would sooner his client would take a nonsuit. 
The Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited, and ordered to pay 
the costs. — Windsor Express. 
REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hor. 
On Hysteria in the Mare, with Illustrative Cases. 
By W. Haycock, V.S. and M.R.C.V.S. London ; Aylott 
and Jones, Paternoster Row. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 27. 
Mr. Haycock, the author of the pamphlet upon our table, 
is sufficiently known to the readers of this journal from some 
excellent papers he has sent to the Veterinarian , as well as 
from the recent publication of a work on Homoeopathic 
Veterinary Medicine, as an able and talented member of 
our professional body. He is a scion of the Scotch Veterinary 
School, and one that reflects credit on an institution from 
which have emanated many highly industrious and de- 
serving veterinarians. Few men observe disease with a 
keener eye, none record it w ith more minute and faithful ac- 
curacy, than Mr. Haycock; while, in description, he stamps 
his observations with a verisimilitude which renders them 
reliable as authority, wherever we may happen to meet with 
them. Before his conversion to homoeopathy, w 7 e w ere now 
and then favoured w ith communications from him ; we regret 
their loss, and regret more still the cause which has deprived 
us of them. 
There appears no valid pathological reason wdiy hysteria 
should not invade the animal portion of creation, unless it be 
in that form in which the fons et origo of the disease be referred 
to the mind ; though, on the highest modern medical authority, 
it is now said to be rather ascribable to the “ nervous influence 
endowing the generative organs of the female P If certain 
