890 REVIEW-PERCIVALL S HIPPOPATHOLOG Y. 
other hand, whoever looks into the monthly Veterinarian Journal 
—to say nothing of the valuable works which have issued from 
the press on this interesting science—will be convinced, that the 
prediction of the Professor is not only not verified, but that men 
of education and respectability are to be found amongst the 
members of the veterinary profession, to which the honourable 
footing they have been placed on in the British army has very 
mainly contributed. But I am running away from my subject 
—a notice of Mr. Percivall’s book. 
“ The Elementary Lectures (three volumes octavo) of Mr. 
Percivall, published about eight years back, are a standard work 
in the profession, and may truly be considered an ornament 
to it. There we find not only the lucidus ordo , the copia ver - 
borum, most happily combined, but the man of science, the prac¬ 
titioner, the scholar, and the gentleman, are equally apparent 
throughout. “ Morborum quoque te causas et signet docebo,” 
is his motto, and closely has he stuck to his text. It may be 
naturally expected, then, that from the terms in which I have 
now spoken of, and the use I have previously made of this ela¬ 
borate work in my own writings, my notice was attracted to the 
advertisement on the cover of your last number, announcing the 
appearance of another work from this gentleman’s pen, entitled 
Hipp op at ho logy , and that in a few days afterwards it was in my 
hands. I like the title of this work, inasmuch as it implies im¬ 
parting to us that knowledge of medicine which relates to the 
distempers incident to the horse, together with the distinguishing 
characteristics by which they are denominated, and subsequently 
the treatment by which they are relieved. I was at first dis¬ 
appointed at finding only one volume, treating on the external 
disorders of the body ; but learning from the preface that two 
more are to follow—one comprehending the internal diseases, 
and another to be devoted entirely to lamenesses , my disappoint¬ 
ment ceased, and you shall hear the why and the wherefore. 
I have a very slight personal knowledge of Mr. Percivall; in 
fact, we should, I think, pass unnoticed by each other in the 
streets. But my accquaintance with him upon paper is an inti¬ 
mate and a cherished one; and I am quite sure, that a mind so 
highly cultivated as his is, will receive with allowance the sug¬ 
gestion of one so infinitely his inferior in the theory of the subject 
on which he ventures to offer them, as I consider myself, and as 
I must be considered by all men. As however he has, in the 
volume before me, done me the honour to quote me in several 
places—as a practical writer, of course—and to comment upon 
what I have asserted, I am the more emboldened in this appeal 
of his ingenuous superiority. 
“ It is only lately that sportsmen have troubled themselves to 
