ABSTRACTS FROA REVIEWS^.SMITH'.S PHY.SIOLOQY. 



The work throughout is well balanced. 

 Broad, though not encyclopaedic, concise 

 without sacrificing clearness, it combines 

 the essentials of a successful text-book. It 

 )8 eminently modern, and, although first in 

 the field, is of such grade of excellence that 

 successors must reach a high standard be- 

 fore they become competitors. Annals of 

 Surgery. 



Dr. Smith has conferred a great benefit 

 upon the veterinary profession by his con- 

 tribution to their use of a work of immense 

 value, and has provided the American vet- 

 erinary student with the only means by 

 which he can become properly familiar with 

 the physiology of our domestic animals. 

 Veterinary practitioners and graduates will 

 read it with pleasure. Veterinary students 

 will readily acquire needed knowledge from 

 its pages, and veterinary schools which 

 would oe well equipped for the work they 

 aim to perform cannot ignore it as their 

 text-book in physiology. American Veteri- 

 nary Review. 



Dr. Smith's presentment of his subject 

 is as brief as the status of the science per- 

 mits, and to this much-desired conciseness 

 he has added an equally welcome clearness 

 f statement. The illustrations in the work 

 are exceedingly good, and must prove a 

 valuable aid to the full understanding of 

 the text. Journal of Comparative Medicine 

 and Surgery. 



We have examined the work in a great 

 many particulars, and find the views so 

 correct, where ' we have had the means of 

 comparison of statements with those of some 

 recognized authority, that we will be com- 

 pelled hereafter to look to this work as the 

 text-book on physiology of animals. The 

 book will prove of incalculable benefit to 

 veterinarians wherever they may be found; 

 and to the country physician, who is often 

 called upon to attend to sick animals as 

 well as human beings, we would say, lose 

 no time in getting this work and let him 

 familiarize himself with the fa"cts it con- 

 tains. Virginia Medical Monthly. 



Altogether, Professor Smith's " Physi- 

 ology of the Domestic Animals" is a happy 

 production, and will be hailed with delight 

 in both the human medical and veterinary 

 medical worlds. It should find its place 

 besides in all agricultural libraries. PAUL 

 PAQUIN, M.D., V.S., in the Weekly MeMcal 

 He-view. 



It may be said that it supplies to the 

 veterinary student the place in physiology 

 that Chauveau's incomparable work " The 

 Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated 

 Animals" occupies in anatomy. Higher 

 praise than this it is not possible to bestow. 

 And since it is true that the same laws of 

 physiology which are applicable to the vital 

 process of the domestic animals are also ap- 

 plicable to man, a perusal of this carefully 

 written book will repay the medical student 

 or practitioner. Canadian Practitioner. 



The work before us fills the hiatus of 

 which complaint has so often been made, 

 and gives in the compass of less than a 

 thousand pages a very full and complete 

 account of the functions of the body in both 

 carnivora and herbivora. The author has 

 judiciously made the nutritive functions the 

 strong point of the work, and has devoted 

 special attention to the subject of foods and 

 digestion. In looking through the other 

 sections of the work, it appears to us that a 

 just proportion of space is assigned to each, 

 in view of their relative importance to the 

 practitioner. Thus, while the subject of re- 

 production is dismissed in a few pages, a 

 chapter of considerable length is devoted 

 to locomotion, and especially to the gait" of 

 the horse. London Lancet. 



This is almost the only work of the kind 

 in the English language, and it se fully 

 covers every detail of general and special 

 physiology that there is no room for any 

 rival. The excellence of typographical 

 work, and the wealth, beauty, and clear- 

 ness of the illustrations, correspond with 

 the thoroughness and clearness of the 

 treatise. Albany Medical Annals. 



It is not often that the medical profes- 

 sion has the opportunity of reading a new 

 book upon a new subject, and doubtless 

 English-speaking physicians will feel grate- 

 ful to Professor Smith for his admirable 

 and pioneer work in a branch of medical 

 science upon which a great amount of ignor- 

 ance prevails. . . . The last portion of 

 the work is devoted to the reproductive 

 functions, and contains much valuable in- 

 formation upon a portion of animal physi- 

 ology concerning wnich many are ignorant. 

 The book is a valuable one in every way, 

 and will be consulted largely by veterinary 

 and medical students and practitioners. 

 Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. 



The appearance of this work is most op- 

 portune. It will be much appreciated, as 

 tending to secure the thorough comprehen- 

 sion of function in the domesticated ani- 

 mals, and, in consequence, their general 

 well-being a matter of world-wide impor- 

 tance. With a thorough sense of gratifica- 

 tion we have perused its pages: throughout 

 we find clear expression, clear reasoning, 

 and that patient accumulation of facts so 

 valuable in a text-book for student*. 

 British Medical Journal. 



For notice this time, I take up the vol- 

 ume on the " Physiology of the Domestic 

 Animals," by Dr. R. Meade Smith, a volume 

 of 938 pages, closely printed, and dealing 

 with its subject in a manner sufficiently ex- 

 haustive to insure its place as a text-book 

 for fifteen years at the very least. Its 

 learning is only equaled by its industry, 

 and its industry by the consistency and 

 skill with wnich its varied parts are brought 

 together into harmonious, lucid, and in- 

 tellectual unity. DR. BENJAMIN WARD 

 RICHARDSON, in the London AsclejH</>I. 



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