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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H ok. 
A Practical 7 realise on Glanders and Farcy in the Horse, 
descriptive and explanatory of its origin, progress , and ter¬ 
mination, and the most effectual methods of treatment and 
cure; by Richard Vines, Teacher of Anatomy and Phy¬ 
siology at the Royal Veterinary College . Longman and Co. 
London, 1830. 
So rare is any emanation of a literary nature from the Royal 
Veterinary College, that it is with no {‘mall measure of gratifi¬ 
cation we hail the appearance of the present production. Going 
on for forty long years has the College stood on its foundation, 
the dast thirty of which has been a period of unbroken silence 
in regard io any presentment to Minerva, save and except that 
instructive little work, the “ Report” of the Professor’s As¬ 
sistant, and which now is only to be found in the cabinets of 
the curious. There most certainly was, however, an epoch, 
somewhere about the year 1825, when Mr. Sewell did intend 
to break in upon this awfully long interval of silence—at least, 
he advertised his intention of publishing a work on glanders: 
why or how it came about that this intention was frustrated, we 
cannot say ; nor, it seems, are we likely to learn, since Mr. Vines 
assures us, that “ he (Mr. Sewell) is not remarkable for being 
communicative on any subject!” and, in fact, all that Mr. V ines 
“ has been able to collect respecting the particular notions of the 
Professor’s Assistant,” he has gleaned from The Veterinarian. 
To say the least of it, this appears very unsocial between fellow 
“ teachers of anatomy and physiology ” at the same institution. 
Mr. Vines, however, confesses afterwards, that he heard Mr. 
Ganley say, “ that he (Mr. Ganley) first communicated M. 
Dupuy’s opinion on glanders to Mr. Sewell, and that he (Mr. 
Sewell) acknowledged it to be quite new, and received it as a 
correct theory .” But, no matter. The Governors of the Veteri¬ 
nary College have bestowed some very liberal remuneration 
upon the Professor's Assistant for this (to use Mr. Vines's ex¬ 
pression) “ extra exertion of his talents! /” 
Very little can be gleaned from the writers of the past ages 
concerning glanders. In its more simple forms it appears to 
have escaped their notice altogether; and in its complicated 
and fatal stages, to have been beyond the sphere of their patho- 
