VOL. XII, No. 133.] JANUARY 1839. [New Series, No. 73. 
[The Editor congratulates himself on being enabled to commence 
the twelfth volume of The VETERINARIAN with a communi- 
cation from the father of that periodical, and another from a 
kind warm-hearted friend who was the first to sanction it by a 
letter bearing his signature. Twelve years hence may they 
still witness, and contribute to the triumph of a work which, by 
its first Editor, was honestly, and heart-and-soul, devoted to 
the cause of veterinary science, and the character and object of 
which shall never be changed. — Y.] 
HIPPO-PATHOLOGY. 
Internal Disease. 
By William PERCIVALL, F.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon 
Life Guards. 
NO general fact appears better established in hippo-pathology 
than that disease is the penalty nature has attached to the domes- 
tication of the horse. So long as the unbroken colt remains at 
grass or in the straw-yard, even though he be houseless and 
shelterless, no sort of apprehension is entertained concerning his 
health : no sooner, however, does the time arrive for his domesti- 
cation, than from the day — nay, the very hour — he becomes 
stabled, do we begin to look for his “ falling amiss and so pre- 
pared for this event do we feel in our own mind, that, should the 
animal escape all ailment during this probationary stage of his life, 
we are apt to regard him as a fortunate exception to what seems to 
be established as a law of nature. In removing the horse from the 
field to the stable — from a situation in which he has been exposed 
to the rude blast and pitiless storm — to one wherein the wind of 
heaven is hardly suffered to visit him, we have so circumstanced 
him that his condition, and his capabilities, may be worked up to 
VOL. XII. A 
