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REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulclirum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
Blaine's Outlines of the Veterinary Art ; or Treatise 
on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Curative Treat- 
ment of the Diseases of the Horse, &c. &c. By 
Edward Mayiiew, M.R.C.V.S. London : Longman and 
Co., 1854. 6th edit. Thick 8vo., pp. 668. 
In following up our task, and taking a leap, with our review 
of the “ Outlines, 5 ' from the Anatomico-Physiological depart- 
ment into that of the “ Practice of Veterinary Medicine," — 
the Medical Department , as it is usually called — we so far find 
the labours of the editor decreased and relieved, as, on the 
one hand, to make it appear not near so actively engaged 
as before in pruning and fresh modelling a work, every page 
of which, at the commencement, bore evidence of much need 
of “revision" and “improvement;" in proof whereof, we 
shall transcribe from such part of it a couple of examples ; one 
describing a common organic or constitutional disease, the 
young horse is not unfrequently the subject of ; the other, 
a local ailment, which nowise interferes with the general health, 
but is apt to occasion impediment to action or going, under 
the name of “ lameness," of the worst and most irremediable 
description. We shall represent the descriptions of these 
diseases under the old and new formulae, commencing with — 
inflammation 
Mr. Blaine’s Account. 
“ Peripneumony, or inflammation 
of the lungs generally, was long a 
great stumbling-block to the prac- 
titioners of the old school; the 
devastating effects on these organs, 
seen in such as had died of it, being 
usually mistaken for the effects of 
some chronic affection of a rotting 
tendency. A more extended ac- 
quaintance with the art has not only 
taught us the true nature and 
OF THE LUNGS. 
Mr. Mayhem’s Account. 
" Inflammation of the lungs was 
long a great stumbling-block to the 
practitioners of the old school; the 
devastating effects on these organs, 
seen in such as had died of it, being 
usually mistaken for the effects of 
some chronic affection of a rotting 
tendency. A more extended ac- 
quaintance with the art has taught 
us the true nature and progress of 
the disease ; but it appears also to 
