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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— Hot. 
Memoir on Vesical Calculi, and the Operation of Lithotomy in 
Horses. By T. Girard, Director of the Royal Veterinary 
School at Alfort: pp. 30. With plates, 1823. 
WHILE nothing of very pressing import obtrudes itself upon the 
tapis of veterinary literature of the day, and so long as useful 
matter lies buried from view, with the fearful risk of its sinking 
(with us at least) into oblivion, we will not seek or ask any apo- 
logy for raking among the ashes of works gone by for subjects 
for our review. The one at present before us is another of the 
works of the learned and respected Parisian Professor. His 
labours on the subject of Hernia, the examination of which we 
have but lately concluded, we trust have carried with their perusal 
some portion of that interest and gratification which stole upon 
and increased in our mind as we turned over the leaves of the 
original. To say the least of these productions, to wit, the former 
one and the one we are about to review, they contain information 
which we search for in vain in our own English veterinary libra¬ 
ries, or even at our Royal School; and this information appears 
to be based upon fact; and carries with it the semblance of truth. 
We conceive, then, that we shall not take up the time of our 
readers, or the space of our journal, to no purpose, by giving this 
second work publicity in a critical dress. 
The present Memoir was sent to us from Paris by the worthy 
Director himself, and would, or ought to have been, but through 
some inadvertence on our part, noticed some time ago. The Director 
gives it to the world as the sequel, or rather the continuation, of 
a similar production on “ Intestinal Calculi” (a work we 
shall endeavour to obtain, and also lay before our readers); and 
informs us, that he had been for a length of time amassing mate¬ 
rials for it, when he found himself unexpectedly called on to expe¬ 
dite its completion, in consequence of an official report made to 
him concerning a stallion on whom the operation of lithotomy was 
performed at the Royal depot of Auxerre, whose case presented 
some occurrences equally rare and interesting. 
“ This stallion first manifested symptoms of the existence of vesical cal¬ 
culus in July, 1822 . The difficulty he had in staling, the acute pains he 
exhibited in the act, the presence of blood in the urine, together with its 
discharge in small quantities, were the pathognomonic symptoms which 
induced M. Segala, the V. S. at the establishment, to examine the bladder. 
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