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rence, Lythe, T urner, and Youatt, entered their opinions on the 
Society’s records : the whole forming such a mass of valuable ob¬ 
servation and comment as has never before been laid before the 
public*. In addition to this, we have given extensive profes¬ 
sional circulation to the laws^ on warranty, as well in France as 
in England ; after which we had, in our own minds, concluded 
the subject to be set at rest for, at least, some time to come. 
The object of the present little ‘‘ Treatise” (which, by some 
inadvertence, has until now escaped our notice) is \nn'e]y practi¬ 
cal —laying down the law as it stands, and shewing in what 
manner it has been applied in particular cases of w’arranty and 
soundness ;—in the words of its author, to collect, in a small 
compass and practical form, the various decisions on this subject 
(the law of warranty) which lie scattered through the whole body 
of reports.” In one word, a sort of digest of the law of war¬ 
ranty. 
For all practical purposes, an amalgamation of law and physic, 
according to the views taken of them in combination by the 
courts of judicature, must turn out highly valuable: portraits 
such as these shew a man at once what he has to trust to, and 
present to him the probable chances there are both for and against 
him. In speculating on the events of horse causes, we in vain 
deliberate on the medical nature of the case, and apply that in 
our own mind to what is or ous^ht to be the law in such matter : 
we do nothing unless we ascertain the practice or usage of the 
courts in like cases,searching for those as nearly similar as pos¬ 
sible to our own (for it is hardly possible to find tw^o in every 
circumstance alike), and thence framing our speculations. To a 
veterinarian, this, I suspect, might turn out rather an unenvi¬ 
able task—to seek out a parallel to his own case among the 
numbers scattered through the whole body of law reports;” 
even to a lawyer it might prove a tedious, if not a fruitless in¬ 
quiry. ]VI r. Surtees has so far rendered both professions a ser¬ 
vice, that he has saved them this labour, in presenting them 
with a coup d’ail of the ‘‘ Reports” sought after; and thus 
enabled them to collate cases, and compare them with their own 
in as many minutes, as it might, without his INIanual,” have 
taken them hours to accomplish. 
In a veterinary or medical point of view, the ‘‘ Manual ” is 
wanting of that substance which the author might, by a little 
further inquiry and research, have obtained for it; indeed, it 
does not appear to us that he has been over-fortunate in the se¬ 
lection of his cases: we find, however, among them some inte¬ 
resting enough ; from which we shall give such extracts as 
* Published ill vol. ii, iii, of The Veterinarian. 
