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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
A Manual of Pharmacy for the Student of Vete- 
rinary Medicine; containing the Substances employed at 
the Royal Veterinary College , with an Attempt at their Clas- 
sification, and the Pharmacopoeia of that Institution . By 
W. J. T. Morton. Longman Sc Co. 
We have made few literary announcements with greater 
pleasure than we do this ; for there was nothing more connected 
with the wishes, and the wants, and, we are perfectly assured, 
the improvement, of the veterinary pupil. Some whose kind 
intentions we shall never misunderstand or forget, and whose 
chemical attainments are far above our praise, had liberally 
opened the doors of their theatres to the student of animal me- 
dicine ; but the distance was great — more time than the youth 
had to spare was occupied in travelling from one place of 
instruction to another — the illustrations of the subject were 
drawn from human and not from veterinary medicine, and there- 
fore, as Mr. Morton well observes, “ the sources of knowledge 
were not always to him correct;” and the pupil, as well as the 
practitioner, had begun deeply to feel that the time had arrived 
when the increasing improvement and worth of our profession 
required that our sources of knowledge should be mingled with 
no circumstances of degradation, but should be found within the 
walls of our own alma mater. 
Of the previous Pharmacopoeia of the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege we will say nothing — de mortuis nil nisi what we could not 
here honestly say. Mr. Morton's previous education — his un- 
wearied habits of industry, and the zeal with which he devotes 
all his energies to a subject worthy of them, united to mark 
him out as the individual from whom the pupil and the profession 
were to receive this boon. We regard it as another pledge of 
that onward march of improvement which has at length, we trust, 
commenced, and which it requires only honest devotion to the 
real interests of our profession, and the exercise of a little kindly 
feeling, to work out to a considerable and most desireable extent. 
Almost every one of our readers will, we doubt not, quickly 
put himself in a situation to judge for himself of the execution 
of this little work. We will now enable him to do so in some 
