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Heview. 
Quid sit pulchrura, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
The Horse and his Master. By Vere D. Hunt, Esq., late 
100th Ilegt. County Dublin Militia. London : Longman 
and Co. 
To the veterinary surgeon the horse presents himself in 
two aspects—health and disease. When in the former state 
he ministers to his necessities and his comforts, in common 
with others; for there are but few persons who do not derive 
some gratification from that noble animal. It must, how¬ 
ever, be conceded that it is in the latter state the horse be¬ 
comes the greater object of solicitude to the practitioner of 
veterinary medicine, since, then, the energies of his mind 
and his professional knowledge are called into requisition, so 
as to remove the malady under which the animal may be 
labouring, or to lessen his sufferings. On this rests another 
fact—his vocation furnishes to him the means whereby he 
lives. What wonder, then, that treatises referring to the 
horse under disease are more frequently commented on in 
this journal than those treating of the laws of hygiene, 
breeding, &c. Still it is to the advantage of the veterinary 
surgeon to maintain health ; a position cavilled at by many, 
and hard to be understood. But there is a duty man owes 
to his fellow-man, and in the army it becomes the especial 
province of our professional brethren, by the adoption of 
sanitary measures, to prevent the outbreak of disease, thus 
realising the adage, “ Prevention is better than cure,” or, 
should it show itself, to check its progress by the removal of 
the cause. 
The present little work embraces hints on breeding, break¬ 
ing, stable-management, training, elementary horsemanship, 
riding to hounds, &c. The immediate cause of its publica¬ 
tion by the author appears to have been his conviction of the 
