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triment which must be given to the fleece as well as the carcass, 
a considerable quantity more, comparing bulk with bulk, than 
the vessels of the ox contain. 
This, however, we can forgive; but our surprise is mingled 
with regret, when the founder of the Abou Zabel school, whose 
name will honourably live in veterinary story as long as the art 
itself has existence, should condescend to have recourse to a line 
of argumentation unworthy of his high lalent, his high desert. 
His attack on M. Hurtrel d’Arboval was uncalled for; and the 
manner in which it was made, and the weapons which were used, 
are utterly indefensible. 
M. Hurtrel d’Arboval is a physician ; but he has for many a 
year devoted himself to veterinary study, and he has experimented 
on the diseases of sheep and of cattle to a very considerable ex¬ 
tent. The experience and the advantages of many a veterinary 
surgeon cannot for a moment be compared with his. He made 
himself acquainted with every fact connected with, and that 
could bear upon, our art; and at length, although no gradu¬ 
ated veterinarian, yet relying on the candour and honourable 
feeling of the profession, he published the result of his labours 
in the form of a veterinary dictionary. In that work he has 
shewn himself perfectly master of his subject: there is not a 
point on which any one has dared to accuse him of gross igno¬ 
rance ; there is not a page in which he has wilfully suppressed 
any important fact, or robbed a single individual of his literary 
or scientific claim. The only objection that can be made to him 
is, that he somewhat frequently enters a little too largely into 
considerations of general physiology, without going at once, or 
so soon as he might, to the physiology of the animal and of the 
case. With this drawback, the work is an honour to the author, 
and ail honour to the veterinary profession, with which he had 
identified himself. It is a standard book; and we only wish that 
some “ amateur” would favour us with a similar one. 
M. Hamont’s allusions to him, and personal addresses to him, 
as “ super-eminently skilful,”—“ physiological physician ,”—“ a 
cleverer person than others;”—his apostrophizing the “ officers of 
cavalry, the proprietors, farmers, cultivators,” and beseeching 
them not to ask M. D’Arboval “ any improper questions,” and 
all because M. D’Arboval did not believe in this “ decomposition 
of the blood,” but traced the rot to some subacute inflammation 
of the digestive organs,—this is utterly unworthy of M. Ha- 
mont; and they who were almost disposed to idolize him for his 
generous devotedness to the interests of the Abou Zabel school, 
would fain drop a tear on this record of human inconsistency, 
and blot it out for ever. 
