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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utiie, quid non.— Hok. 
The Outlines of the Veterinary Art; or a Treatise on the Ana¬ 
tomy, Physiology , and Curative Treatment of the Diseases of 
the Horse , and subordinately of those of Neat Cattle and 
Sheep . Illustrated by Surgical and Anatomical Plates . By 
Delabere Blaine. The Fourth Edition , revised throughout , 
and considerably improved and increased by the introduction 
of many new and important Subjects , both in the Foreign and 
British practices of the Art, and by the addition of some new 
Figures . 1832. (!) 
We are, generally speaking, averse to these enlarged and im¬ 
proved editions. The author ought thoroughly to have studied 
his subject, and made his work complete at first; and if, in the 
progress of science any new discovery is made, or new light 
breaks on the mind of the author, it should be given to the pur¬ 
chasers of the first edition in the form of a cheap appendix. To be 
compelled to repurchase an expensive work, in order to be put in 
possession of the present state of any science, is a manifest and 
disgraceful robbery : it is a mere bookseller’s job, and that with 
which no author who values his reputation will be concerned. 
It is, however, a totally different matter with regard to the 
work before us. Although only six years have elapsed since the 
publication of the last edition, a revolution has taken place in ve¬ 
terinary science, or, from the establishment of veterinary societies 
and veterinary periodicals, the art has more progressed among us 
than in the whole period before from the commencement of our 
emancipation from barbarism. It was impossible that Mr. Blaine 
could have foreseen this, or have anticipated the new light that 
has broken in upon us from so many quarters. Therefore, as the 
ground which he occupied six years ago, on almost every point of 
pathology, and many of physiology, would be, to a greater or less 
extent, untenable, he did right, or he was necessarily compelled, to 
re-model, and, as it were, to re-write his book; an^l he has certainly 
presented us with a new book, and a very excellent one too, and 
even better than any of his preceding works; and we cordially recom¬ 
mend it to the veterinary public, and particularly to the veterinary 
student. The latter may not find it so useful a companion in the dis¬ 
secting room ; for Mr. Blaine, considering the excellent anatomical 
account which has been given in many numbers of this periodical, 
of the osseous system of the horse, and which, we trust, will be 
