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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
Recueil de Memoires et Observations sur i/Hygi^ne e? 
LA MeDECINE V^TeRINAIRE Militaires, redig e sous la Sur- 
veillance de la Commission d’ Hygiene, et pub lie par Ordre du 
Ministre de la Guerre. Tome Deuxieme. Paris, 1849. 
Memoirs and Observations on Military Veterinary Hy- 
giene AND MEDICINE, compiled and arranged under the 
Superintendence of the Sanitary Committee, and published by 
Order of the Secretary at War. Vol. ii, Paris, 1849. 
[Continued from vol. xxiii, page 37.] 
We must confess the thought has crossed our mind oftener than 
once that the medical and veterinary officers of our army are less 
zealous than they might be expected to be in assuming the 
characters of contributors to the common stock of professional 
knowledge. Considering the leisure time they in general have on 
their hands, parts of which at least, one would imagine, they could 
hardly devote to a better, and we will add, a pleasanter purpose, 
than the improvement of the art they practise, the professional pub- 
lic seem led to expect more from military surgeons and veterinary 
surgeons than from others. The French government appear to 
have felt some such lack of zeal in their own medical and vete- 
rinary departments ; and so, with the view of rousing the members 
of each into increased activity, have directed, through their Secre- 
tary at War, that there shall be annually submitted to veterinary 
surgeons, now, as well as to surgeons in the army, series of ques- 
tions for solution, in medicine, surgery, pharmacy, and hygiene ; 
awarding to that officer who shall give the most satisfactory or 
laudable answers thereto either a gold or a silver medal. This is 
no more than certain learned and other societies are in the habit of 
doing in our own country, whenever they desire information or 
enlightenment on certain abstruse or uninquired-into points of 
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