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these measures cannot be expected to prove immediately effective, for it is almost certain that infected animals may distribute the bacilli with their f.:eces for some considerable time before they show any indication of illness. The discovery of a means of cultivating the bacillus artificially might lead to the preparation of a diagnostic agent analogous to tuberculin, which would be of great service in this connection.

The question whether the disease ought to be scheduled so as to bring it under the provisions of the Contagious Diseases of Animals Acts deserves serious consideration.

I am much indebted to Dr D. Hutchinson for the micro-photograph shown in Fig. 2; and to Mr A. L. Sheather, M.R.C.V.S., for the other m icro-photogra phs.

Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie der Haustiere fiir Tierarzte, Arzte, und Studierende. Von Dr Georg Schneidemuhl, Professor der Tiermedizin und vergleichenden Pathologie an der Universitat Kie!. 1. Abteilung. Berlin: R. Trenkel, 1906.

DR SCHNEIDEMUHL, who is well known as the author of a useful work on the comparative pathology and therapeutics of man and the lower animals, has been induced to write a text-book of veterinary pathology and therapeutics, of which the above forms Part 1. This part is divided into four sections, which treat respectively of (I) infectious or bacterial diseases, (2) diseases caused by animal parasites, and (3) intoxication diseases. It extends to a little over 300 pages and includes forty-six illustrations. The title of the work indicates that it is designed to meet the requirements of veterinary surgeons, practitioners of human medicine, and students, but, as was to be expected, the author has not been equally successful in each of these three directions.

At the present day it is wholly impossible to deal, in a manner which can be considered ade1uate from the veterinary practitioner's point of view, with the bacterial diseases of animals in the space which the author has here allowed himself, and even as a guide to veterinary students the work is on many subjects defective both in fulness and precision. This is true even of such important diseases as anthrax, glanders, and tuberculosis, while the information given with regard to the diseases caused by protozoa is so meagre as to be almost valueless. The work may prove more useful to the student or practitioner of human medicine, who merely desires to have animal diseases described in outline for comparison with similar affections 1\1 man.

A TreatIse on Surgical Therapeutics of Domestic Animals. By P. J. Cadiot, Professor, and J. Almy, Adjunct, in the Veterinary School of Alfort. Translated by A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. London: Bailhere,·Tindall & Cox, 1906. Price, 20/- net.

THE matter of this work is arranged under three heads, viz., (1) general surgery, (2) diseases common to all tissues, and (3) diseases special to all tissues and affections of the extremities. The reader will naturally wonder what are the diseases special to all tissues, but this is only one of the many

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word puzzles which Dr Liautard has created III his attempts to render the French of the original work into English. It may be at once explained that the third chapter deals not with diseases special to all tissues, but with diseases affecting the various tissues, such as skin, muscles, tendons, etc.

The work has many defects, some apparently belonging to the original, while others are obviously to be laid to the charge of the translator. Among the former one notices a tendency to wholly unnecessary amplification and explanation which is truly irritating. Take, for example, the following, which occurs on the very first page: "Under the influence of the pain produced by the instrument no animal will remain quiet. It will resist and try to defend itself, so that the surgeon who wishes to act with safety must take precautions against injury. The horse with his feet or teeth, the steer with his horns or legs, the dog and the pig with their teeth, the cat with its claws and canines may inflict dangerous wounds." This might be quite proper in a book for the instruction of little children, but it is surely out of place in a veterinary text-book. Translator's mishaps occur on almost every page, and every here and there one encounters a word which belongs to no language, living or dead. Such are, sphacel, erobica, bacterians, epiphysar, diaphysar, zooglocia.

Text-Book of ComparatiYe General Pathology for Practitioners and Students of Veterinary Medicine. By Professor Dr Th. Kitt of Munich. Authorised Translation by Dr William W. Cad bury, Assistant Demon­strator of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. Edited with Notes and Additional Illustrations by Dr Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1906. Price 25/- net.

WE had occasion to speak favourably of the German original of this work when it appeared in 1904, and the present translation will prove welcome to English·speaking veterinary students. The task of the translator has been well done, and the added illustrations are useful. The editor has occasionally thought it necessary to introduce a sentence or two of new matter, with which, as a rule, no fault can be found. Sometimes, however, the editor's contribu­tion is not of the nature of an improvement, as, for example, when he raises a doubt as to the pos$ibility of bacterial diseases arising quite independently of contagion or infection (p. 71). The publishers' share of the work is very well done.

Veterinary Toxicology. By Joshua A. Nunn, c.B., Colonel, A.V.c. etc. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1907. Price 5/- net.

THIS small work of 191 pages is a reprint of articles which originally appeared in the Veterinary Journal. The author modestly disclaims for the work any originality, and candidly admits that it is only a compilation, mainly from foreign sources. In spite of this, however, the book is one which students preparing for examinations may find useful.

Veterinary Surgical and Obstetrical Operations. By W. L. Williams, Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics, New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University. Second Edition, Revised. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, H)07.

THE first edition of this work on surgical and obstetrical operations was reviewed in this Journal in 1903. The second edition has been considerably improved by revision of the text and the addition of a few new illustrations. As a useful guide to the performance of the principal operations on the dead subject the book can be commended to students.