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l»ebtelu. 
“ Let me suppose you have surmounted the teasing" employments of print¬ 
ing and publishing, how will you be able to lull the critics; who, like Cerbe¬ 
rus, are posted at the avenues of literature, and who settle the merits of every 
new performance?”— Goldsmith. 
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The Veterinary Surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a New and 
Easy Plan. By John Hinds, Veterinary Surgeon. Price 
125. Sherwood & Co. 1827. 
EXULTING in the new light which has lately broken on the 
veterinary world, and anticipating the speedy approach of that 
period when the profession will assume its proper station,.both 
in real acquirement and public estimation, we observed with 
much interest the first announcement of this work. That in¬ 
terest was not decreased when we were informed by Mr. J. 
Hinds, in his preface, that the reputation of our name (not, 
gentle reader, the names of the humble editors of The Vete¬ 
rinarian’’) induced the bookseller to ask my father’s opinion and 
mine,” respecting some professional MSS.; and that, in an ho¬ 
nourable contention for a certain premium for the best essay on 
the structure of the horse, and on which occasion our best writer 
on veterinary anatomy deigned to enter the arena, Mr. J. Hinds 
bore away the first prize. 
' In the publications of Messrs. Coleman, Blaine, Percivall, 
Peel, Goodwin, and Clark, we have many excellent instruc¬ 
tions to form the veterinary surgeon; but here, we thought, must 
be The Veterinary Surgeon” par Excellence; not of the old 
school, or rather no school;^’ (p. vii.) without "" the laughable 
sublimations of cotemporaries,” (p. ix.) and who would fully 
and honestly teach us how the process of nature is carried on 
in health, and the cure to be effected in every species of de¬ 
rangement.” (p. X.) 
The veterinary art in England, although nearly forty years 
have elapsed since its birth, is yet a child of too stinted and 
tardy growth; and the student, both young and old, will equal¬ 
ly listen to the instructions of a master who promises so fairly 
and so much as does Mr. J. Hinds. We crowd to his introduc¬ 
tory lecture, in which he tells us how the process of nature is 
carried on in health.” 
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