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ON SOUNDNESS. 
he has often recommended him to be purchased with a specific 
warranty. r 
Mr>./. Turner adverted to the great number of hackney-coach 
horses lame with spavin. If they were lame behind, it was almost 
certain to be from spavin : it seemed from this, that it was a more 
frequent cause of lameness than Mr. Field believed. 
7 HE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1 , 1829 . 
‘‘ Licet omnibus, 
licet etiam mihi, dignitatem artis veterbiarice tueri.” _ Cicero. 
IN addition to the Communications which our Number for the 
present month contains, from individuals of high respectability in 
the profession (to whom we beg to express our obligations),’ we 
are enabled to present our readers with very full, and, we believe, 
accurate accounts of the discussions that have taken place on 
Mr. Percivall’s paper “ On Soundness:” an occasion on which 
we cannot refrain from feeling some pride, and much inward satis¬ 
faction. We say this, because the reports will be found to embrace 
the sentiments and opinions of several of the most able and expe¬ 
rienced veterinarians, placed side by side, on a subject on which, 
of all others, it seems most desirable for us to come to some 
mutual understanding and unanimous conclusions. 
Eveiy speaker at these discussions felt impressed with the vast 
importance and extraordinary difficulties of the subject: some 
w ent so far as even to doubt whether any practical good could be 
elicited out of the discussion of such an intricate question; while 
others conceived that lines might be drawn through various divi¬ 
sions of it, that might serve as very useful guides, if not as infallible 
ones. 
It seemed to be the general opinion, that Mr. Percivall’s lead¬ 
ing principles were sound ones : viz. 
1 st, “ That actual or recognised disease constituted unsound¬ 
ness.” 
