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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hon. 
Recueil de Memoires et Observations sur l’Hygiene et 
LA MeDECINE VeTeRINAIRE MlLlTAlRES, redigt sous la Sur¬ 
veillance de la Commission d'Hygiene, et public par Ordre du 
Ministre Secretaire d'Etat au Departement de la Guerre. 
Paris, 1847. 
Memoirs and Observations on Military Veterinary Hy¬ 
giene AND MEDICINE, compiled and arranged under the 
Superintendence of the Sanitary Committee, and published by 
Order of the Secretary at War. Paris, 1847. 
THROUGH the kindness of Mr. Gloag, Veterinary Surgeon to 
Prince Albert’s Regiment of Hussars, to whom they have been 
sent by M. Magendie, from Paris, two volumes of these “ Memoirs 
and Observations” have just reached us. Their title-pages are of 
themselves inviting; but the volumes acquire, in our eyes, a 
peculiar interest from being accompanied with a narrative of the 
circumstances under which they have been compiled, as well as 
from a feeling of professional fraternity with the respected authori¬ 
ties whence their materials of compilation have been derived. 
We learn from the “Introduction,” that, in 1843, the Secretary 
at War (then the Duke of Dalmatia) appointed a committee of 
hygiene, with instructions to examine into any and all propositions 
touching the hygiene and conservation of the horses of the French 
army. 
The constitution and personnel of this committee sufficiently 
indicate the nature and importance of the functions entrusted to 
it: 1st, were appointed physicians, agricultural chemists, and 
members of the Institute; *2dly, civil veterinarians, members of 
the Royal Academy of Medicine; 3dly, a maitre des requetes, a 
person versed in administrative questions relative to the organiza¬ 
tion of the cavalry and to the remount service of the army; 4thly, 
military veterinarians, elected out of the best informed and most 
