ON PLEURO-PNEUMONlA. 
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might, we believe add, dog-medicine ! Had equivalent study and 
pains-taking been bestowed on the latter, would the farmers and 
graziers of the present day have to deplore the loss, year and year, 
of their valuable stock through pleuro-pneumonia 1 Had such a 
disease ravaged our stables, as it has done our cattle sheds, should 
we be looking on instead of working out its cause and its nature, 
and in the end hitting upon its cure or prevention 1 Can any body 
taunt us with any ill-understood, or uncured, or unprevented disease 
affecting horses? Glanders, it may be said, remains incurable. 
Granted ! But how rarely does it occur now-a-days, compared to 
what it did in former times ? Have we not, through prophylactic 
measures, all but banished the invader from our large horse estab- 
lishments — from the army, from collieries and breweries, post 
and coaching and farm stables 1 And is not “ prevention better 
than cure ? ” Had pleuro-pneumonia, as the malady is called, 
spread among our horses as it has among our cattle — and who is 
bold enough to say horses are not subject to such a disease ? — it 
would have met long ere this with a successful combatant out of 
our pharmacopoeia. But, so long as cattle-medicine is left in the 
hands of “ an enlightened public,” — so long as every man is to con- 
tinue his “own cattle doctor,” — so long as cattle-medicine is suffered 
to remain a dead letter at the veterinary colleges, so long must and 
will our cattle, the pride of our country, fall victims to the dreaded 
pleuro-pneumonia. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The Crest of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons. Modelled and published by J. BAILEY, 8 , Conduit- 
placet Paddington . 
A CAST of this figure is before us ; and really there are few crests 
which could be made to represent so agreeable an image. There 
is about it so little bearing any relation to heraldic taste that a 
person uninformed of the artist’s design, would naturally conceive it 
