OK THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF CATTLE, &C. 445 
detached subjects, and some of them highly valuable; but we look 
to that gentleman for a more connected and complete exposition 
of veterinary science, and somewhat freed from too acrimonious 
personalities, if he would fully establish his claim to our gratitude. 
Mr. Blaine has given us his Veterinary Outlines,^’ to which for 
many a year the pupil was solely indebted for all he knew of the 
anatomy of the horse, while, strange to say, they who owed most 
to him, would not acknowledge him as a member of the profes¬ 
sion. Posterity will do justice to this, or rather the general voice 
of veterinary practitioners has already done it. 
Last, and not least, we have Mr. W. Percivall, whose Lec¬ 
tures are admirable in their present form, and the harbingers of 
a yet superior work, creditable to himself, and the profession to 
which he belongs. 
From the following we must not withhold every meed of praise, 
although they have not added much to our literary reputation or 
professional knowledge. White, excellent in his account of symp¬ 
toms, but who degraded himself by catering for the groom;— 
Causer, who promised a scientific development of veterinary pa¬ 
thology, but who has given us little that is new, except a recom¬ 
mendation of sulphur as almost a specific for numerous diseases;— 
Wilkinson, with a most extraordinary and unparalleled list of 
successful cases of tetanus, by the use of opium, camphor, and 
assafoetida, and a novel mode of treatment of epidemic catarrh by 
the deliveiy of a nitre ball between the grinders;—Rydge, with his 
Vade-mecum,’’ a sketch of the causes and symptoms of disease, 
and the best approved formulae for every case, but which should 
be contained in the veterinarian’s head, and not carried in his 
pocket.—The only ^Wade-mecum” should be experience, founded 
on honest and diligent study; every thing else will deceive and 
disgrace us.—Peck, giving the whole of the Veterinary Materia 
Medica, the anatomy of the abdominal viscera of the cow, and 
the symptoms and treatment* of every disease of cattle, in 150 
loosely printed pages. 
As for Knowlson’s complete Horse and Cattle Doctor,” with 
his prescriptions worth ten guineas each, and new to the world;”— 
Clater’s Every Man his own Farrier and Cattle Doctor;”—and 
Hind’s Veterinary Surgeon,” a name assumed by some garreteer 
compiler, and one of the most impudent specimens we have on 
record of the abominable art of book-making,—these constitute 
the ridicule of the continental schools, and the disgrace of ours. 
In what estimation is the ail held by the public? If a young 
man, with little introduction, settles in a country place, with no 
brother veterinarian in his immediate neighbourhood, and op¬ 
posed only by untaught farriers-and'cow-leeches, will he gene- 
