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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— Hon. 
Recueil de Memoires et Observations sur l/Hygi^ne et 
LA MkDECINE VkTERINAIRE MlLITAIRES, redig e sous la Sur- 
veillance de la Commission d' Hygiene, et public 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, arid published by 
Order of the Secretary at War. Yol. ii, Paris, 1849. 
[Continued from page 92.] 
In once more opening these interesting volumes, it is neither 
our intention nor our desire to foist upon the civil readers of 
The VETERINARIAN matter which could alone concern and please 
the military practitioner. Both the civil and military veterinary 
surgeon must feel alike interested in the improvement of their 
art; and both must feel equally persuaded that the cultivation 
of our science in extensive fields for observation is the only legi- 
timate channel through which such improvement can be made and 
received, and that it matters little where or by whom or through 
whom such cultivation is carried on. That veterinary practice, 
like medical practice, differs in some respects in the army from 
what it does in private society we know very well : still, will 
the same phenomena take place in health, the same diseases 
present themselves for treatment, affording opportunities for ob- 
serving and recording both, which oftentimes are more complete 
and embraceable in the army than in private practice, and which, 
consequently, so far afford the military veterinarian, in descrip- 
tion of them, some advantage over the civilian. On the other 
hand, there are instances where opportunities preponderate in 
favour of the private practitioner. 
On the present occasion, our object is to invite attention — and 
