584 PERCIV all’s anatomy op the horse. 
because he was considered “ to keep a shopand so he did—a 
pharmacy, in which his assistant compounded his prescriptions. 
Another instance came to our knowledge, in which a rope was 
actually extended through the middle of the ball-room, in order 
to dissociate those who kept no shops from the unhallowed 
touch of the profanum valgus. We wonder on which side of the 
said rope the Vet. would have found himself; probably on 
neither:—a blacksmith's forge must most indubitably have quali¬ 
fied him for no higher a berth than the sooty region of the coal¬ 
hole. 
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Quid sit pulchrura, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— Hor, 
The Anatomy of the Horse , embracing the Structure of the Foot. 
By William Perci vall, M. R. C. S., Veterinary Surgeon 
in the First Life Guards ; Author of “ Lectures on the Ve¬ 
terinary Art,’" and Co-Editor of u The Veterinarian.” 
That veterinary science has rapidly progressed within the last 
few years, is a fact that admits of no dispute. A profession too 
long undervalued, and almost systematically degraded, is begin¬ 
ning to assert its claim to consideration ; and that claim, willingly, 
by the man of enlarged and liberal views; and reluctantly, yet 
even more triumphantly, where bigotry and jealousy oppose, is 
now admitted in the scientific and medical world. Among the 
means that will ensure its future progress, the most efficacious 
and valuable are the improvements that have taken place in ve¬ 
terinary education. Twenty years ago there was not an elemen¬ 
tary book in the English language to which the student could 
satisfactorily have recourse ; but now, although his aids are few, 
they are valuable and effectual: and with Blaine, and Percivall, 
and Goodwin, and Peall, and Clark for his guides, and last, 
and not least, the information which he may derive from the 
contributions of many a writer in the pages of The Veterina¬ 
rian, it will be his own fault if he become not a well-grounded 
and successful practitioner. 
For the last two years, however, the newly-entered veterinary 
student has complained. Mr. Blaine, in order that he might 
record, in his last most valuable edition of the “ Veterinary Out¬ 
lines,” the recent improvements that had been made in veterinary 
surgery, was compelled to abbreviate the anatomical detail; and 
the first and second volumes of Mr. PcrcivalLs Lectures, con- 
