FROM THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE. 
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are a few at least among us, who, without too great condescension, 
might be admitted into the conclave, and the honour conferred on 
whom would be reflected on and felt by us all. 
Time, which effects many changes, will here, and speedily 
effect an important change. Our veterinary periodicals will diffuse 
among us much important knowledge. Our veterinary societies 
will bring us more together, and kindle a more ardent zeal for the 
improvement of our art and the respectability of our profession ; 
and, at no distant period, the force of public opinion will give us 
that which we now indignantly claim as our right, and which 
every other profession enjoys, and which, in every country but 
ours, is yielded to the veterinary profession,—the distribution of 
honours and privileges among our brethren, of whose merit we 
alone are, and can be, adequate judge s. 
“ Let me suppose you have surmounted the teasing employments of 
printing and publishing, how'^ will you be able to lull the critics; who, like 
Cerberus, are posted at the avenues of literature, and who settle the merits 
of every new performance V — Goldsmith, 
A TREATISE ON INGUINAL HERNIiE IN THE 
HORSE AND OTHER MONODACTYLES. 
Hy Girard, Director of the Royal Veterinary School at Alfort. 
4to, pp. 145, with Lithographic Plates. Paris, 1827. 
(Continued from page 254 .) 
IN wishing to impress on the minds of our readers that stallions 
are the ordinary subjects of inguinal hernia, and, according to our 
author, those especially in the habit of covering,’’—according to 
our own experience, those especially in the practice of racing,—we 
do not remember to have seen or even heard or read of a single 
case of the kind occurring in the mare. One obvious reason for 
this exemption is the narrowness of the abdominal ring in the lat¬ 
ter, inasmuch as the round ligament is inconsiderable in volume 
and importance compared to the chord. We may also ascribe some 
influence, probably, to the presence of the vagina and uterus, and 
