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OBSERVATIONS ON W1NDGALL. 
In thus bringing before the profession a form of treatment and 
a powerful rubefacient agent, I do not pretend to lay any claim to 
originality, except, perhaps, in some of the details; for I openly 
confess that I was made acquainted with the agent, and the manner 
of its being compounded, by a gentleman, an amateur, with whom 
I was brought professionally into contact when a very young man. 
I was at first disposed to treat it lightly, and for several years I 
paid no heed or attempted its adoption : whim or some now forgotten 
cause led me to give it a trial, and I have never had cause to re¬ 
gret it. As I have no secrets, am utterly opposed to quackery, nor 
believe in nostrums or universal remedies, but sincerely believing 
that success alone depends upon the personal capability of employ¬ 
ing the remedies which are open to all at the right time, and only 
to the right cases^ and also that this capability does not so much 
depend upon genius or talent as upon the proper use of the ordinary 
faculties, combined with labour, or, if you. will, observation; thus 
feeling, I cannot but look upon those who would keep secret any 
particular mode of treatment which may prove to be successful as 
very quacks, mere ignorami, and quite unworthy of imitation; but, 
at the same time, I hold it as an axiom, that nothing ought to be 
promulgated until time has tested its merits to myself. 
I may, perhaps, hereafter feel disposed to send you a case 
or two in illustration ; but cases, after all, are of little consequence, 
in comparison with general rules or principles. 
I am, Mr. Editor, 
Your’s obediently. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
Observations on the Expansion of the Foot of the Horse. 
By Austin C. Shaw, Veterinary Surgeon, Member of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Fellow of the Veterinary 
Medical Society, and Lecturer on Veterinary Medicine and 
Surgery*. Dublin. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 23. 
ACCIDENT has thrown this little pamphlet in our way. Until now 
we never heard either of it or its author. Small as it is, however, 
and obscured as it appears to have remained, its pretensions are 
any thing but trifling or uninteresting. It presumes to discuss no 
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* Mr. Shaw has lately been appointed veterinary surgeon to the 3d Dragoon 
Guards. 
