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state, of society, and even of science. Some tell us, and with 
much appearance of truth, that there is a great deal that wants 
reforming in human medicine; sure we are, that there was 
nothing in politics or in jurisprudence that half so much needed 
reformation as veterinary science. The good work has begun 
there, and it will progress—slowly, perhaps, but surely; nay, as 
rapidly as the state and prejudices of society, and the grade and 
character of veterinary practitioners, will permit. 
We have a proof of the march of reformation in the work 
before us. When our literary and elementary food becomes more 
wholesome, and full of nutriment, our professional constitution 
will grow and thrive. Clater was once the scorn of the well- 
taught practitioner, and the very opprobrium of the British ve¬ 
terinarian. Amidst the list, too long, of trashy and poisonous 
works that stinted the growth and vitiated the constitution of 
veterinary science, Clater once stood foremost. Whether a de¬ 
crease of sale, or a portion of that wisdom which it would be 
well if others possessed, of being warned of the signs of the 
times, or we hope a better feeling still,—whichever of these 
operated in the minds of the proprietors of the work, they have 
put it into other hands, and it has undergone a marvellous im¬ 
provement ; nay, to that extent, that, in our present dearth 
of books on the diseases-of cattle, we can cordially recom¬ 
mend it to our readers, as one of the very best treatises on this 
subject. 
The two following extracts speak for themselves. We select 
them as bearing a little upon the disease hinted at by our friend 
Mr. Spooner, in our last number, and which, he has since in¬ 
formed us, is characterized by effusion in the whole of the 
thoracic cavity; in fact, it is that pleurisy which is as fatal 
among cattle and sheep, as inflammation of the substance of the 
lungs is among horses. The lungs had probably been affected 
and predisposed to inflammation by the almost total abandonment 
of the animal at the time of yeaning, and, by and by, too succu¬ 
lent food stirring up any latent tendency to fever, wherever 
it might be found, this already weakened part is first attacked. 
The new editor is speaking of the period of lambing. 
“ Attention should now be paid to the lamb, and he requires it 
even more than the mother. It is want of care that causes the 
loss of more than four-fifths of the dead lambs. The principal 
evil is exposure to cold. If the weather is severe, great numbers 
of lambs are often lost in a single night. A few hurdles with 
straw, or a warm quick hedge, would save the greater part of 
them, fhe farmer need but use his observation to be convinced 
how eagerly the ewes and the lambs seek that shelter, and how 
