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Review. 
Quid sit pulchrura, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
A Register of Experiments, Anatomical , Physiological, and 
Pathological, performed on Living Animals . By James 
Turner, Veterinary Surgeon, author of a ‘'Treatise on the 
Foot of the Horse,’ &c. Parts I, II, and III. London, 
1839, 1843, 1847. 
It is recorded of Roger Bacon, that on his death-bed he 
exclaimed, “ I wish I had dedicated myself with less zeal to 
the interests of science, for then I should have been spared 
much suffering.’* It is a remarkable fact that the great 
philosopher who first bade mankind awake from the 
mediaeval sleep to a contemplation of the results of experi- 
mental inquiry in the development of truth, should also have 
been able to teach by experience to all the great ones who 
were to follow in his step, the abnegation, nay, the suffering 
entailed, by resolute pursuit in the high road of intellectual 
progress. Had it been otherwise, the justice with which 
Providence distributes her inestimable blessings would have 
been violated, for there can be no doubt that successful 
labourers in the infinite field of scientific truth taste delights 
which no other human pursuit affords, and they have only a 
right to regard the checks and sufferings imposed by com- 
parative ignorance, as the base metal which must inevitably 
enter into the composition of the human alloy. Unhappily 
for himself, happily for the world, Roger Bacon lived three 
centuries before his teaching was to bear ripe fruit; but while 
the w r orld admires, men will not cease to proclaim that he 
gave the charter of scientific progress to all successive 
generations. Who will deny that the tortures of his long 
imprisonment have had their reward, — reward so great, so 
pure, so superior in every respect to all other human rewards, 
