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REVIEW OF YOUATt’s LECTURES 
the waggon proprietor, and the proprietor of the barge horse, are 
sometimes too low for an ordinary man to stand upright in, too 
dark for the accumulation of filth to be observed, too far from 
the master’s eye for the stable-man to do his duty, and where 
the fumes of the fteces and the urine are continually arising; 
these, I have said, are the very hotbeds of Glanders, and there 
it is almost a constant resident.” In another part of the same 
lecture, he states, “ that these places are the very domain of 
Glanders, and that many an inhabitant yields to its influence 
yet where do we find horses so hardy, so healthy, so capabley 
not only of ordinary, but of cruel exertiouT" 
So, gentle reader, if you should wish to furnish yourself with 
horses possessing the above qualities, these are the places, ac¬ 
cording to Mr. Youatt’s description, in which you are to look for 
them®. The fact is, this gentleman, in his lectures on Glanders, 
Farcy, &c., from being much too fond of figurative language, 
and, 1 should say, that he has little profited by his opportunities for prac¬ 
tical observation who entertains a moment’s doubt about it. I will tell 
Mr. Vines that practical men are, now and then, very painfully compelled 
to “ be swayed by logic like this,” and that they would regard his prac¬ 
tical experience with contempt, if he disputed the deductions which such 
logic enforces. I will also tell him, that “ there is no more prolific source 
of glanders, than low, ill-ventilated filthy stables.’’ Really I am ashamed 
to hint at these circumstances of every day’s occurrence. As for the term 
practical, I will not bandy that any more with Mr. Vines. Two-and-tw'enty 
years’ employment, even on the scale which some of the Numbers in 
The Veterinarian of this year exhibit, must have given to the humble 
writer of these notes no contemptible opportunity for observation. If Jie 
has not availed himself of them, and is still a theorist, why it is his own 
fault! 
And as to the ungentlemanly insinuasions, in which Mr. Vines indulges 
himself in almost every page, of “poetical,” “ingenious,” “figurative 
language,” “ hearsay,” “ contradictory evidence,” “ practical men,” “ mys¬ 
tification,” “ wish to set aside all originality in others,” “ imaginary posi¬ 
tions,’’ “perverse obstinacy,’’ “unfair misrepresentation,” “feigning,” 
&c. &c., 1 regard them with the contempt they deserve^ and which they 
will excite in every honourable mind. The cause of truth can never be 
benefitled by falsehood and blackguardism. 
® Really, Mr. Vines, this is unfair; for you w’ell know that my argument 
went to this extent only—that, for awhile. Glanders was a local disease; 
and that you would nowhere find horses more hardy, healthy, or capable 
of exertion, than these barge-horses, until the constitution became tainted. 
For the perfect truth of this I appeal to every one who practises in the 
neighbourhood of a canal, or who has much to do with w aggon or even with 
farm horses. Mr. Vines may go and purchase horses at these jilaces if he 
pleases, and I should w ish him joy of his bargain ; but did he think me so 
insane as to recommend my friends to go there, w hen the chances are that 
the horses they purchased would have the seeds of this disease within them ? 
This is not fair reasoning. There is a literary dishonesty and w ant of prin¬ 
ciple about it. 
