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REVIEW — VARIOLA OVINA. 
but repeat, a more extraordinary and beautiful specimen of disease 
it has never been our fortune to inspect. The impression it must 
have made on the mind of Mr. Simmons, when he first on opening 
the animal discovered it, we can feel well assured will, like the one 
it has made on our own, be many years before it be effaced. 
Ed. Yet. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
A Practical Treatise on Variola Ovina, or Small-pox in 
Sheep ; containing the History of its recent Introduction into 
England ; with the Progress , Symptoms, and Treatment of the 
Disease ; also the Experiments instituted to ascertain its pecu- 
liar Features, and the best Means to avert its fatal Consequences. 
Illustrated with Coloured Plates. By JAMES B. SIMON DS, 
Lecturer on Cattle Pathology, &c. at the Royal Veterinary 
College. 8vo, pp. 157. Ridgway, Piccadilly ; and Churchill, 
Princes-street. 1848. 
Next to those awful visitations of Nature, storms, earthquakes, 
and volcanoes, nothing — save it he a French revolution — sounds 
more portentously upon the ear than the outbreak of some “ noi- 
some pestilence,” come it in the form of plague on man, or in that 
of murrain amongst man’s flocks and herds. In a populous, crawl- 
ing-alive country like ours, wherein horses and cattle and sheep 
are regarded not less as individual property than as the pride and 
wealth of our nation, any new and fatal disorder breaking out 
among them will be sure to attract the earliest attention, to become 
at once an object of solicitude to the farmer and grazier, of observa- 
tion and study to the veterinarian. That the present is not the 
first appearance of variola ovina, or sheep-pox, in Britain — 
that it has been both known and described in times past — and 
we might add, since those times, forgotten — there is on record 
evidence enough to dispel all doubt concerning. But “ it has 
never until now existed here as an epizootic says Mr. Simonds; 
