116 REVIEW-“ ADVICE TO PURCHASERS OF HORSES.” 
sells him again for GOO or 700 francs, in the department of 
Dordogne, the custom of which does not acknowledge glanders, 
or broken wind, or founder, as unsoundness. Thus, also, an 
epileptic horse is purchased at a good price, in the department of 
Ain, and if he has a good figure, he is sold still dearer in some 
other department; for the custom of Brest alone ranks epilepsy 
in the horse as unsoundness. 
Far from the law punishing or restraining this shameful traffic, 
these scandalous and dishonest speculations, it is the very law 
which encourages them, and enables them to be carried on with 
impunity. It is the efficacious protection of the law which per¬ 
petuates them. 
[To be continued.] 
lUbietaJ. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
Advice to the Purchasers of Horses , By J. Stewart, 
Veterinary Surgeon , and Professor of Veterinary Surgery in 
the Andersonian University . 
This little w'ork contains much that will be useful to the class 
of readers to which it is addressed, and to horsemen generally; 
for it not only touches on all the points of unsoundness, but gives 
an outline of the general conformation of the horse. There may 
not be much original matter—the subject in a manner precludes 
it,—but the style is simple, and the observations are, in general, 
well founded. 
We may probably, hereafter, review the w T ork somewhat at 
length ; but we are stopped, peremptorily stopped, by an ad¬ 
vertisement that has accidentally fallen into our hands, and 
which we insert at length, as one of the most complete specimens 
of unprincipled puffing that we ever saw. Our readers will pre¬ 
serve it as a perfect unique : — 
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“ Advice to Purchasers of Horses; being a short 
and familiar treatise on the exterior conformation of the Horse, 
the nature of soundness and unsoundness, the law r s relating to 
sale and warranty, with copious directions for discovering un¬ 
soundness prior to purchase. By J. Stewart, veterinary 
surgeon, and professor of veterinary surgery in the Andersonian 
university. 
‘ The buyer hath need of an hundred eyes, 
But the seller of only one/ 
