VAKIOUS ARTICLES IN “ THE VETERINARIAN.” 343 
will not expect in me even an attempt at a display of pathological 
knowledge. As I have already expressed myself, experience — 
together with much attention to causes and effects — forms the 
basis of all I know on these matters ; although I have a hundred 
times lamented, that it has not had for its handmaid a small 
portion of that science which, as it can only be acquired* by 
something like a professional education, has been out of my 
reach to obtain. 
By the by, always being glad to find any thing to shew that 
the noble object of our consideration — the horse — has been 
esteemed worthy the attention of persons of high distinction and 
great abilities, I was much pleased at accidentally stumbling on 
the following chapter, in Cornelius Agrippa, on the origin and 
progress of the veterinary art. For the elegance of the Latin 
I can say but little : it is on a par with that of the middle ages, 
in which it was written ; and for that of the translation, I must 
say nothing, it being my own : — 
Caput LXXXVIl (87) De ante Veterinaria. 
u Est adhuc alia medicinse praxis, quam veterinariam vocant, 
quae brutorum morbis medetur, caeteris longe certior et utilior, 
a Chirone centauro, ut fertur, inventa, et a Columella, Catone, 
Varrone, Pellagonio, Vegetio, nobilissimis scriptoribus illustrata. 
Hanc tamen annulati isti medici non tam verecundiae sibi dicunt, 
quam penitus quoque ignorant et aspernantur, admodum deli- 
catuli, ut tanquam upupa avis, non nisi humanis stercoribns 
oblectentur, unde si quis ab illis pro asino, aut bove suo medi- 
camen requirat, pro remedio mox injuriam accepturus sit: 
quasi ad eos non pertineat scire, non solum hominibus, sed etiam 
caeteris animalibus (praecipue quae hominibus commoda referunt) 
mederi : pro qua re Alphonsus Aragonum rex olim duos exper- 
tissimos medicinae doctores,pro equis et canibus amplius conduxit 
stipendio, jussitque solicitos scrutari, quae remedia, et quis me- 
dendi modus singulis bestiarum morbis conveniret, quod illi 
facientes librum de his rebus utilissitnum ediderunt. Fecit idem 
his temporibus Joannes Ruellus, Parisiensis, vir in utraque lin- 
gua peritissimus, ac physicus primarius, qui de morbis equorum, 
eorundemque remediis, ex vetustissimis authoribus, Apsircho, 
Hierocle, Theomnesto, Pelagonio, Anatolio, Tiberio, Eumelo, 
Archedamo, Hippocrate, Hemerio, Africano, et ex Emilio His- 
pano, et Litorio Beneventano, defectum volumen transtulit, 
veterinariis omnibus magna cum Reipublicae commoditate pro- 
futurum.” 
Translation . — There is, besides, another practice of the art of 
medicine, called the veterinary art, devoted to the cure of mala- 
