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REVIEW 
-“ CATTLE.’ 
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the work on c British Husbandry/ now publishing under the 
superintendence of the Society. 
“The diseases of cattle was a favourite topic with the writer ; 
but here, too, he painfully felt the deficiency of materials for a 
treatise worthy of such a subject. One branch of veterinary 
science has rapidly advanced. The diseases of the horse are 
better understood and better treated; but, owing to the absence 
of efficient instruction concerning the diseases of cattle in the 
principal veterinary school, and the incomprehensible supineness 
of agricultural societies, and agriculturists generally, cattle have 
been too much left to the tender mercies of those who are utterly 
ignorant of their structure, the true nature of their diseases, the 
scientific treatment of them, and even the very first principles 
of medicine. 
“ With the few practitioners scattered through the country, who 
had praiseworthily devoted themselves to the study of the 
maladies of cattle, the author entered into correspondence ; and 
he derived from them a liberal assistance which does honour to 
the profession whose character they are establishing. 
“ To many of the contributors to that valuable periodical, 
‘The Veterinarian,’ he is under considerable obligation, and 
which has been duly and gratefully acknowledged. He has 
likewise had recourse to various foreign authorities; for, although 
far behind us in the cultivation of the breed of cattle, many 
continental writers, and continental agriculturists generally, have 
set us a laudable example of attention to the diseases of these 
animals. 
u The author ventures to hope, that the information derived 
from these sources, as well as from his own practice, may have 
enabled him to lay before his readers a treatise on ‘ Cattle’not 
altogether unsatisfactory; and that, particularly with regard to 
their maladies, so often grossly misunderstood and shame¬ 
fully treated, he may have succeeded in laying down some 
principles which will guide the farmer and the practitioner through 
many a case heretofore perplexing and almost uniformly fatal. 
At all events, he will have laid the foundation for a better work, 
when common sense, and a regard to the best interests of 
husbandry, shall have induced agriculturists to encourage, or 
rather to demand, a higher degree of general education in veterinary 
practitioners, and shall have founded, south of the Tweed, those 
schools for professional instruction in every branch of the veteri¬ 
nary art which have been successfully established, and are 
honourably considered, on the continent. 
“ W. YOU ATT/ 
