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The next plate is that of the Suffolk Punch of the present 
day. The largeness of the head, the shortness of the neck, the 
coarseness of the muzzle, and the lowness and cloddiness of the 
shoulders of the old Punch, are not so prominent as they used 
to be : in fact, the breed has been crossed by the larger horses 
of Yorkshire and Durham, and, perhaps, has improved in figure 
and action. 
The last plate of this part contains the 16-hand Clydesdale, 
and the diminutive Zetlander. The contrast is a pleasing one. 
The Clydesdale horse is the inhabitant of Lanark, Renfrew, Ayr, 
and Dumfries — black, bay, or brown ; longer and less weighty, 
compact and muscular, than the English black horse. He usually 
steps out more freely, and has more useful action for ordinary 
labour. He draws steadily, and is free from vice. 
With this part ten closes. The work, and particularly the 
pictorial part of it, decidedly improves as it proceeds ; and that 
is no mean praise. Y. 
Manual of Veterinary Homeopathy , comprehending the Treat- 
ment of the Diseases of Domestic Animals. From the German 
of M. W. London : Hurst and Bailliere. 
When the question of homoeopathy was first agitated at some 
of the meetings of the medical societies of the metropolis, the 
Editor of The Veterinarian was, for awhile, silent, won- 
dering with great amazement at the strange doctrines that were 
promulgated by some of those whom he had been accustomed to 
place almost at the head of their profession. He could not, for a 
moment, doubt the honour of the propounders of these new and 
astounding doctrines. He sometimes met with isolated facts that 
seemed to confirm the wildest of their errors ; but he never, for 
a moment, became a convert to them. At length some of the 
experiments were tried on the quadruped. He takes shame to 
himself that he did not assume the initiative here. 
These experiments were, in the opinion of the homoeopathist, 
conclusive. He doubted the accuracy of some of the accounts 
that were given, and at length he began to experiment himself ; 
and the result of these experiments was far from being satisfac- 
tory. He published, in The Veterinarian of some years ago, 
the result of these experiments. He lost the support of more than 
one by whom he used to be employed, because he would see with 
his own eyes, and form his own conclusions from the facts that 
were presented to his consideration. 
The experiments, however, were continued ; and he has now 
