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REVIEW OF MOIROUD’s 
or, for many a year, could hold ? Glasgow has lately appointed 
its veterinary professor; and now, for the first time in the 
southern part of the British dominions, will the just claims of the 
veterinary professor begin to be vindicated in another university, 
and (still in the language of John Hunter) “ that ancient error 
be exploded, that, while medicine is regarded as the province 
of the learned and the few, the veterinary art is supposed to be 
on a level with the most ordinary capacities.” 
In the future conduct of our periodical, therefore, we would 
earnestly solicit the co-operation of our friends in the gradual 
accumulation of scientific and practical facts. Let this be the 
character of our Journal . Without farther angry contention, or 
in despite of it, the improvement of our art is assured. A new 
sera is preparing to open on the history of our profession. We 
should account it the proudest achievement of The Veterina¬ 
rian, if we could unite all who are interested in our improve¬ 
ment, in the endeavour to hasten its progress, and that by the 
contribution of each, according to his situation and means, to 
the general stock of knowledge. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utiie, quid non.— Hor. 
Traite Elcmentaire de Mat lire Medicate , et Pharmacologic 
Vetcrinaire; par L. Moiroud. Paris, 1831. 
Possessing no veterinary pharmacopeia sanctioned by the 
authority of our national school or compiled by any experienced 
practitioner, and knowing full well that the materia medica of 
every practitioner has been slowly and hesitatingly selected by 
him, and is the result of doubtful and often painful experience, 
and differs materially from that of many of his brethren, and 
differs toto coelo from the “ pocket” one of the St. Pancras 
College, we observed with pleasure the announcement of the 
work before us, and we were enabled to procure a copy before 
the stated period of publication. 
M. Moiroud was Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at 
the Veterinary School at Lyons: he is now Professor of Pathology 
