486 NOTES ON BIBLIOGEAPHY OP CATTLE PATHOLOGT. 



for the owners of cattle and to the members of the young profession ; 

 of these the one which most largely has influenced the progress of 

 cattle pathology is that excellent work, Youatt On Cattle, which 

 appeared in 1834, and may still be consulted with benefit in spite of 

 the vast strides of all branches of pathology since then. More 

 recently members of the veterinary profession have contributed 

 largely to the advancement of this branch of science, and our 

 leading authors have treated of the diseases of cattle generally with 

 those of our other patients, as in the works of Blaine, Dick, 

 Gamgee, and Williams, the Veterinary Surgery and Veterinary 

 Medicine of the last of these authors, and the work of Gamgee on 

 Our Domestic Animals in Health and Disease, are those which we 

 suggest as most valuable to the student of cattle pathology in the 

 present day. For information on special subjects he cannot do 

 better than consult such works as those of Fleming on Animal 

 Plagues, Babies and Hydrophobia, Veterinary Sanitary Science and 

 Police, and (especially) Veterinary Obstetrics, the publication of 

 which has rendered it less necessary for us to enter into prolonged 

 treatment of this section of bovine practice than has seemed right 

 to our predecessors in this branch of professional literature. Also 

 Wallet's Four Bovine Scourges is of special value and interest ; it 

 is a marked gain to veterinary science. We must here also allude 

 to the small but useful papers by Morton and Simonds, the former 

 on Calculous Concretions and Toxicology, the latter on Pleuro- 

 pneumonia, Parturient Apoplexy, and so on. Also to that formidable 

 but interesting volume, Gamgee oh Cattle Plague. For our informa- 

 tion on the action of medicinal agents we are indebted to the works 

 of Morton, Tuson, and Finlay Dun ; and we have derived much 

 valuable matter from Dr. Gobbold's Parasites, and The Parasites 

 of our Domesticated Animals, as well as from notes on his course 

 of lectures at the Royal Veterinary College, which we, as a stu- 

 dent, had the privilege of taking. A few works on cattle have been 

 recently produced in America, of these we need only allude to Pro- 

 fessor James Law's Farmer's Veterinary Adviser, as in many points 

 original and always worth reading. Dobson On the Ox, through 

 which we have been fortunate enough to obtain many of our illus- 

 trations, is addressed to the farmer as well as the practitioner, and 

 is therefore hardly sufficient fo:: the requirements of the profession 

 in the present day. It has proved of considerable use to students 

 and practitioners, and we can conscientiously allude to it as a 

 simple, interesting, and practical work. With those of Youatt, 

 Armatage, and Spooner, already alluded to, it has recently repre- 

 sented that portion of veterinary literature most directly dealing 

 with diseases of the ox. Not the least valuable portion of the 

 literature of my subject must be sought for in the columns of such 

 periodical publications as the Veterinarian, Veterinary Journal, 

 Edinburgh and American Veterinary Beviews, Veterinary Becord, 

 Abstract of Proceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association, and 

 also the journals of the various agricultural societies. 



