352 CURSORY REMARKS ON 
ing coughed themselves to death from supposed injury to the 
lungs; whereas, on post-mortem examination, the lungs have 
been found the only sound part of the viscera. 
Page 144. — I admit, with your justly esteemed correspon- 
dent, Mr. W. C. Spooner, of Southampton, that a veterinary 
surgeon is placed in a difficult situation whilst inspecting a horse 
on sale, warranted sound. I remember hearing the late Lord 
Maynard say, by the cover side, in Leicestershire, that he had 
never had a happy moment since he had spent two hours in the 
surgery of a celebrated member of your profession. “ I expect 
every horse I have,” said his Lordship, (i to lame himself in 
stepping over the sill of the stable-door, so fearfully and wonder- 
fully do I find him to be made.” I also admit, that a veteri- 
nary surgeon in this case should “ act upon the safe side ;” and 
that, were I in the profession, I would certainly reject a horse 
with spavins, although not lame, unless I were well acquainted 
with his previous history ; neither do I wish to be understood 
to imply, that I would purchase such a horse at any thing of a 
price, unless from a knowledge, either on my own part or that of 
others, of his previous history and soundness, in severe work. 
Mr. Spooner’s assertion, or rather hypothesis, that the cause of 
lameness in the hock, generally attributed to spavin only, is, in 
seven cases out of ten, to be attributed to deeper-seated disease 
in that joint, is in part confirmatory of the doctrine insisted 
upon by Mr. Mayer, jun., — viz., that in proportion as anatomy, 
physiology, and pathology, are still more perfectly understood 
and described, will the profession be able yet more to simplify 
diseases, more judiciously to apply remedies, and attain more 
just principles upon which to base their operative surgery; 
finishing the paragraph L by judiciously expressing a hope, that 
they may then look forward with more confidence towards obtain- 
ing a substitute for that dernier resort, the actual cautery. God 
send they may ! say I. 
P. 151, New Views regarding Roarers, by Mr. James 
Turner, Regent-street. — Putting talent quite out of the question, 
there is no person , in my opinion, to whom owners of horses are 
more indebted than to the gentleman whose name is attached to 
this interesting paper, and for those inestimable requisites to 
perfection, — perseverance and zeal. At one time we find him 
galloping across the country after specimens of one disease, 
then after another ; and now we have him, with a burning scent, 
running the cause of roaring to ground, not in the throat, but 
in the nose. In fact, with the “ res notissimci” in his view, the 
“ causa latet ” brings not Mr. Turner to check. All I have to 
say on the especial nature of the subject here discussed, is, that. 
