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RE VIEW. — CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
partment of it, and even the pages of our Journal will bear 
ample testimony to his zeal and his success. 
When we glanced at the first pages of his intended work, and 
which have very lately come into our possession, we were struck 
with the motto, “ Let every one tell that which he knows, all 
that he knows, and nothing but what he does know.” How rapid 
and triumphant would be the march of truth, if this were engraven 
on the memory of every inquirer, and all his researches and all 
his proceedings were regulated by this sacred principle. 
We turned the leaf, and with increasing interest, and with fast- 
growing regard for the writer, we read the following dedication : 
TO 
FRENCH AND FOREIGN VETERINARY SURGEONS ; 
TO 
THE LANDED PROPRIETOR AND THE AGRICULTURIST ; 
TO ALL WHO ARE OCCUPIED IN THE BREEDING OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 
AND THE PURSUIT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, 
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED, 
AS A TESTIMONY OF MY SINCERE ESTEEM. , 
Gelle. 
Had we never known or heard of the writer, we should have 
been prejudiced in his favour; but having known and communi- 
cated with him, and had demonstrative proof of his sincere devo- 
tion to his profession, we began to peruse his introductory pages 
with unusual and deep interest. 
It almost seemed — we well knew that that could not in reality 
be — as if the Professor had the English school, and the English 
veterinary surgeon, in his mind’s eye when he commenced his 
preface. “An immense chasm exists in medical veterinary 
literature — and that is, an accurate description of the maladies of 
cattle, based on experience and practice.” The chasm is wider 
and deeper here, and more lamentable have been the consequences 
with us than with him ; but the time is arrived when preparation 
is making to fill — to obliterate it for ever, and to make the path 
of veterinary study and science facile and plain, and leading to 
the grand storehouse of every truth connected with agriculture 
and with humanity. 
He states it to be his object to collect, and bring into one field, 
every truth that has hitherto been disseminated with regard to 
the physiology and medical treatment of those animals whom 
the veterinary surgeon had too long neglected, and his deter- 
mination to state the truth, wherever error or neglect of duty 
might be disclosed. “ I write,” says he, “ for science — for the 
veterinary surgeon and for the agriculturist. I belong not to any 
party; and if I should be opposed to the prejudices or to the errors 
of others, I disclaim all intention of giving offence, for I advo- 
