ON GLANDERS. 
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carried through every system into which the consideration of that 
animal may be divided, has very courteously and properly omitted 
a part of his anatomy, and much condensed the rest. But as a 
companion in the closet, whether for physiological or patholo¬ 
gical instruction, this work will be invaluable to the student; and 
especially as now, but we hope not long, it must be his only 
companion. 
Mr. Blaine has diligently and successfully embodied in this 
new edition all the improvements and discoveries of his vete¬ 
rinary brethren; and they are neither few nor worthless. It is a 
faithful and interesting delineation of the present state and cha¬ 
racter of our art,—as valuable as before to the student in his 
closet, and more so to the lover of horses, although an unprofes¬ 
sional mam It is intelligible, although scientific; and interesting 
and popular, without being superficial. 
On the points in which Mr. Blaine so much excelled, his 
theory of disease and his history of symptoms, he maintains all 
his wonted superiority. If in the treatment of disease he occa¬ 
sionally, but not often, brings a little too much of what he learned 
in the school of human medicine into the consideration of the ma¬ 
ladies of quadrupeds, we can forgive him that. His account of 
the foot, and the diseases of the foot, stands unrivalled. 
One or two trifles escaped his observation—the confounding of 
the symptoms of carditis with those of pneumonia, as distinct as 
day and night—the retention of the unchemical iEgyptiacum, the 
inert ' Balsams, the farriers’Diapente, the unnecessary torturing 
Euphorbium, the fine sounding, but, compared with ginger or 
caraways, worthless Grains of Paradise, and some others, in a 
materia medica truly excellent indeed, but too much extended; 
these trifles, and if there were many more of them, would not 
detract from the merit of one of the best works, and, going hand 
in hand with Mr. Percivall’s the very best, the standard work 
on veterinary science. 
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lExtracts from journal#, ^omgnanfc Domestic, 
On Glanders. 
Translated from u The Elements of Veterinary Pathologyby 
M. Vatel, Clinical Professor , a?id also of Operative and 
Forensic Medicine at the Royal Veterinary School of A fort. 
This account of glanders, containing the present recognized 
doctrine on this dreadful disease in the school of Alfort, will 
probably be interesting to the English reader. 
