PATHOLOGY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
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Our veterinary writers are those who are fitting to be professors, 
but on whom that honour had not been conferred ; and we have a 
noble list of them. They, at least, have their reward in the satis- 
faction of their own minds, and the gratitude of their brethren. We 
can reckon in early days, a Blaine, a Clark, a Lawrence, and at a 
still later period, a Goodwin, and especially a Percivall — the pride 
of our profession. Others are becoming actuated by the same feel- 
ing ; and in W. C. Spooner, and Stewart, and a host of worthies 
who who have enriched the pages of The VETERINARIAN, we have 
many who have an especial claim on our respect and gratitude. 
There is one who, ere long, must take his place in this noble list. 
His pupils and the profession demand it of him ; and his love of the 
art, and his desire for its improvement, will not long permit him 
to be in the back-ground. 
M. Del wart, on his appointment to the chair of pathology in the 
veterinary school at Brussels, hastened to give to his class and to 
the public a proof that he was not altogether incompetent to the 
task that had devolved upon him. It is an interesting and a diffi- 
cult subject which he undertakes — the special and descriptive 
pathology of the principal domesticated animals. He is evidently 
well acquainted with all that has been said and written on the dif- 
ferent subjects that come before him. If we were to find any 
fault, it would be, that there is not quite enough of quiet, plain, in- 
telligible pathology ; but the reader is amused, and his mind is in- 
terested — and deeply interested every reader of this work will be — 
with many very pleasing speculations which are not altogether 
founded upon or connected with practice. As a fair specimen of 
the work, we extract his observations on the disease of the articula- 
tions of colts, of which M. Lecoq treats at length in the latter por- 
tion of the Proceedings of the Veterinary Association. 
“ Colts while at the teat are subject to inflammation of the tis- 
sues concerned in the formation of the joints. It is first announced 
by an unwillingness to move, and the indication of slight pain 
when the articulations are pressed upon. The articulations that 
are generally attacked are the knees, the hocks, and the fetlocks. 
In proportion as the disease gains ground, the colt loses his spirits — 
he seldom goes to the udder, and he sucks with difficulty. The 
articulations become more tender and painful — the surrounding- 
cellular tissue is infiltrated with a serous fluid, and an oedematous 
enlargement is formed. The disease assumes a more aggravated 
form — the little subject can scarcely raise himself from the ground, 
and he can stand but a little while. He is only able to suck by 
being held up to the udder. As soon as he is no longer able to 
rise, he refuses every kind of food — he is generally constipated, 
although there is sometimes diarrhoea, and death occurs in from six 
to ten days. 
