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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
Lameness IN the Horse : with coloured Lithographic Plates , 
illustrative of the different Species of Lameness. Being Part I 
ofVol. IV of the Authors “ Hippopathology.” By William 
PERCIVALL, M.R.C.S. V.S., &c. &c. Longman & Co. London. 
It will be impossible for any one to look over the first part of 
the fourth volume of Mr. Percivall’s HIPPOPATHOLOGY without 
feeling that his has been, indeed, a labour of love : each preceding 
“ part” had, to a certain extent, predicated this feeling; but it 
was reserved for the present most fully and unmistakably to de- 
velope it. The three leading topics of the volume, Rheumatic 
Diseases of Joints, Spavin, and Navicularthritis—a most tire¬ 
some word to write, although very significant when written—have 
been treated with a fulness, a researchiveness, a comprehensive¬ 
ness, that prove them indisputably to have been penned con 
amore : either of them, taken alone, would constitute a monograph 
of sufficiently sterling value to have brought its author at once 
before the public; and we can only account for the same de gus- 
tibus devotedness pervading the three, even to the last paragraph 
of the trio, by bearing in mind that, however they may differ in 
name, they are in reality but varieties of one disease, modified by 
locality and intensity; for as for any three articles on entirely dif¬ 
ferent topics being taken by one author, and treated with the same 
warmth of colouring, truthfulness of detail, and fulness of descrip¬ 
tion, anatomic, pathologic, and therapeutic, we hold it to be utterly 
impracticable. 
If we were to select any portion of a work where all is good 
for more immediate praise, we should most unhesitatingly take the 
symptomatology. This is certainly the most perfect thing of the 
kind we have ever met with in veterinary writings, nor do we 
believe it to be excelled by any authors on medicine or surgery. 
The symptoms, as detailed by our author, we feel to be true—we 
go along with him without for a moment thinking of questioning 
