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particle of food, except in a fluid state, had passed during her ill- 
ness. As I have never seen or heard of a case of this sort before, 
I forward it to you. The animal had been kept in a quiet yard, 
or I should have supposed that she had met with some mechanical 
injury. I shall leave the profession to judge for themselves as to 
what they think the probable cause might have been. 
I am, your’s respectfully. 
May 20th, 1847. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The PlG : a Treatise on the Breeds, Management, Feeding, 
and Medical Treatment of Swine ; with Directions for Salting 
Pork, and Curing Bacon and Hams . By WILLIAM You ATT, 
Esq., V.S., Author of “ The Horse,” “ Cattle,” “ Sheep,” “ The 
Dog,” Editor of “ The Complete Grazier,” &c. Illustrated with 
Drawings from Life by William Harvey, Esq. 8vo, pp. 164. 
Cradock & Co. London, 1847. 
It was at the instigation of “ The Society for the Diffusion of 
Useful Knowledge” that Mr. Youatt undertook a series of popular 
veterinary works, treating respectively on “ The Horse,” “ Cattle,” 
“ Sheep,” and “ The Dog,” — the Pig forming no link in the 
Society’s literary chain ; but, on the contrary, and, in our opinion, 
very undeservedly, being excluded altogether from their notice. 
Between animals so useful and valuable as those just named, it 
would be folly to pretend to make any comparisons ; though, in an 
agricultural point of view, the pig surely surpasses the dog, and, 
as an article of diet, no flesh is more esteemed, or oftener served 
upon a farmer’s table, than swine’s flesh : and as the Society pro- 
fessed to manufacture agricultural useful knowledge, we, for these 
reasons, opine that the pig had fair claims to their scientific 
notice. And so thought our lamented colleague, poor Youatt! 
and therefore resolved to rescue the animal from such undeserved 
exclusion, and to devote a work to him which should find a place 
beside those he had executed for the Society, and fill up the chasm 
they had left in their popular veterinary literature — a work, fortu- 
nately, he had, in all save its passage through the press, com- 
pleted before his death. 
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