430 Notes, Communications and Reviews. 



enough to give his professional adviser the chance of hattling 

 successfully with serious disease. 



Furthermore, a text-l)ook on veterinary matters, written 

 expressly for agricultural students, should treat in detail of 

 those items of doctoring which the " vet " has to leave to 

 those looking after the case on the spot. Obviously the 

 ordinary groom, cowman or shepherd Avants supervision in 

 time of illness, and if the farmer is to be in a position to give 

 such sujoervision in the times between the visits of the 

 veterinary surgeon, his training in the matter must be as 

 complete as possible. It is in these two relations that the 

 veterinary lecturer or writer, who addresses himself to agricul- 

 turists, may be most useful to the farming industry and to the 

 members of his own profession. 



It is a matter of common knowledge that, in this country 

 at any rate, the veterinary profession looks upon instruction in 

 their own subject, given to agricultural students, with a certain 

 amount of suspicion. If, however, such instructions were 

 more strictly confined to elementary diagnosis of serious 

 disease, to nursing, and to what is so well described as " first 

 aid," nothing could come of it but good, both to the farmer 

 and to the veterinary surgeon. 



We do not complain of Dr. Reynolds' treatment of these 

 matters, we only wish there was more material of the kind, 

 for, when he does write of such things, he is most interesting 

 and instructive. Even had his treating of these simple subjects 

 led to the crowding out of some of the more professional 

 matter from his book, we do not believe that any one looking 

 at it from the farmer's point of view would have complained. 



K. J. J. M. 



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