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and his quadruped companion the dog ; but there had been few re¬ 
corded cases of it in the horse: M. Dubuisson gives an unques¬ 
tionable instance of it. 
The lectures of Mr. Youatt on the diseases of the nervous 
system must be appreciated according to the pleasure of the 
reader. The lecture on tetanus was the product of much reflec¬ 
tion. 
The illustrations of insanity, or, at least, of monomania in the 
horse, by Professor Rodet, will be read with intense interest by 
the veterinary and the medical practitioner. Stomach it as the 
biped may, the difference is far more in degree than in kind 
between the intelligence of the human being and the brute, and 
between even the virtues and the vices of each. 
A strong confirmation of the propriety of performing the ope¬ 
ration of neurotomy above the fetlock, rather than below it, in 
every case that will admit of it, will be found in a communication 
by Mr. Simpson. There are too many anastomosing branches 
to permit the sensibility to be sufficiently and permanently sus¬ 
pended when the pastern nerve alone is divided. There requires, 
however, much anatomical skill and deep consideration in order 
to decide the matter well at all times. 
Mr. Molyneux has given a pleasing description of the physio¬ 
logy and diseases of the eye of the horse. Mr. Rawlings and 
Mr. Proctor have added two more cases to those already on re¬ 
cord of the formation of cataract without any known or detected 
previous inflammatory action in the eye generally; and Mr. 
Godwin has given a description of that dreadful and untractable 
disease fungus hsematodes in the eye. The progress and termi¬ 
nation of this complaint will be read with painful interest by 
those who have struggled in vain to subdue this hundred-headed 
hydra, and will afford a useful lesson to young practitioners; as 
will also the long struggle with caries of the conch of the ear 
related by Professor Delafond. We do not know a case so 
likely to bring the practitioner into discredit as his being foiled, 
as he continually will be, by this minute and apparently insigni¬ 
ficant fistula of the ear, unless he takes more decisive steps than 
the owner will often consent to at the beginning. 
The papers by M. Decoste and Mr. Cartwright on the pene- 
