BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE MR. WM. PERCIVALL. 59 
solicitation of several friends, to become theEditor of a monthly 
journal; and in January, 1828, he brought out the first 
number of ‘ The Veterinarian.’ Assuming to himself the 
sole Editorship, was found to give offence in another quarter, 
and an opposition journal very soon appeared, but which 
early declined for want of support. Mr. Percivall having in 
contemplation the bringing out of a work on the Anatomy 
of the Horse, a subject which had occupied much of his 
time and attention ; and having in addition to his other 
duties those to attend to which belonged to his office as a 
Regimental Veterinary Surgeon, associated himself with his 
late and much-esteemed friend Mr. Youatt, who thus became 
co-editor of c The Veterinarian.’ For many years past, how- 
ever, the management of this periodical had again devolved 
upon Mr. Percivall, in consequence of Mr. Youatt’s death. 
In 1832 he published, for the use of the pupils at the 
Royal Veterinary College, his * Anatomy of the Horse : 5 a 
work they stood much in need of, and which must be said to 
reflect the greatest possible credit upon its author. Up to 
the present time this work has not been attempted to be 
superseded by any other of the kind, notwithstanding the 
various improvements and discoveries of these more 
enlightened days. The c Anatomy ’ was followed by his 
‘ Hippopathology, or a Systematic Treatise on the Disorders 
and Lameness in Horses,’ in four volumes, the first of which 
appeared in 1834; the second in 1840; the third in 1843; 
and the fourth in 1850. 
In 1850, his c Lectures on the Form and Action of the 
Horse’ were published. In 1853 a revised part of the * Hip- 
popathology ’ came out, on the “ Diseases of the Chest and 
Air-Passages of the Morse ;’ and there is now in the press, 
and will shortly be presented to the public, a new and cor- 
rected edition of another part of the same work. 
It was, likewise, the intention of our deceased friend, had 
life and health been spared to him, to have published, in the 
ensuing spring, a ‘Manual or Hand-Book,’ for the use of 
Veterinary students. 
With respect to the literary and scientific attainments of 
Mr. Percivall, nothing, perhaps, can do greater justice to his 
merits as an author than the disinterested encomiums of the 
public press, in reviewing his different productions, as they 
made their appearance from time to time. Many and various, 
likewise, are the letters which could be produced, urging a 
more speedy production of the w T orks in progress — works 
w’hich will ever rank as ornaments to the profession to w 7 hich 
he belonged. In addition to being the author of the fore- 
