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pidly, and more perfectly accomplishes in him than in the supe- 
rior animal that has many means and appliances at his command. 
Anecdotes . — From the long habit of studying the intellectual 
and the moral qualities, as well as the animal powers, of his 
quadruped patients, the veterinary surgeon will easily be induced 
to give them credit for much good feeling and self-command ; 
yet favourably as he thinks of them, he does not attribute all 
that they are capable of doing and suffering to the triumph of 
the mind over the body, but to a certain inaptitude to feel so 
intensely as we do all the pangs of corporeal sufferance. My 
pointer, selected for the pureness of his blood and the perfection 
of his education, transgresses in the field : I call him to me, and 
I chastise him severely, and he lies motionless and dumb at my 
feet ; and when the punishment is over, he slowly gets up, and by 
some significant gesture acknowledges his subjection to me, and 
his consciousness of deserving what he has suffered. I should 
be a brute myself if I did not comprehend a great deal of what 
passed in his mind, and love him the better for it, and perhaps 
secretly resolve, “ I will never strike thee again but I cannot 
allow a power of mind equal, superior to my own. There is much 
in him to admire and to love ; but something is to be attributed 
to that lesser degree of feeling which nature gave him, in order to 
fit him for the place he was to occupy in the scale of being. 
I operated on a pointer bitch for enlarged cancerous tumour, 
accompanied by much inflammation and increased sensibility of 
the surrounding parts. A word or two of kindness and a word 
or two of caution were all that were required : the integument 
quivered as the knife pursued its course : a moan or two escaped 
her, but she struggled not; and her first act, after all was over, 
was to lick my hand. 
Chabert, the fire king, once had a Siberian dog, the finest and 
noblest of his kind. He had sold him to a gentleman for a great 
deal of money, but before the dog was delivered to the purchaser he 
broke his leg. A hundred guineas was a kind of fortune at that 
time to poor Chabert, and he brought the animal to me in great 
tribulation. The fracture was to be reduced ; the cure was to be 
perfect, and not the slightest lameness or vestige of injury w T as 
to betray what happened. He talked to the dog ; he lifted the 
broken leg ; he shook his head, and expressed his concern : he 
then pointed to me, imitating the action of binding it up ; as- 
sumed a cheerful countenance ; patted the dog upon the head ; 
held up his finger to him by way of caution ; once more pointed 
at me, and at the broken leg, and left the room. The noble 
animal understood it all, and sat quiet as a lamb. I never dis- 
graced him by the muzzle, or put him under the slightest re- 
straint : I was compelled occasionally to give him pain. I was 
