THE FARMER'S VETERINARY ADVISER. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



The author has accomplished his task with remarkable perspicuity 

 and abihty. In this " Adviser " we find everything necessary to be 

 known by the amateur of the more common, and even some of the 

 rarer, forms of disease, as well as the accidents to which quadrupeds 

 and poultry are liable — the whole being brought up to the most ad- 

 vanced standard of veterinary science. We know of no work on the 

 subject in any language which, in the same space, embraces so much. 

 While the technicalities of science are interpreted in words which 

 must be intelligible to the meanest understanding, and the whole 

 book is written in a terse attractive style, nothing is omitted which 

 pertains to the most recent investigations and discoveries. We cer- 

 tainly have no book like this in Britain ; and we are of opinion that, 

 though written for America, it should prove as useful on this side of 

 the Atlantic. — The Veterinary Journal, London, Mng., August, 1876. 



The diseases of all our domesticated animals, and the more important 

 ones of poultry, are described, and most approved treatment given. I 

 have no hesitation in saying that this is the most useful and therefore 

 the hest work on the diseases of animals in the English language. It 

 is wonderful how much information has been compressed within the 

 limits of a small volume. Before the publication of this work a farmer 

 was obliged to purchase a small Hbrary to have at command advice 

 on different diseases to which his animals are liable, and even then it 

 could not always be relied on. The treatment is particularly com- 

 plete. — Db. Salmon in Oountrt, Gentleman. 



Wb can, after a careful perusial of the work, confidently add, that 

 it deserves to be placed at; the head of all that has hitherto appeared 

 in this line. Its 400 pages are filled with valuable, practical informa- 

 tion, concisely written and in plain popular language. — Prairie 

 Farmer, Chicago, July 29, 1876. 



In a systematic way, Prof. Law classifies the various kinds of dis- 

 ease, and speaks of each concisely, as it appears in animals of different 

 kinds, — its symptoms, treatment and prevention. An appendix is 

 devoted to fiie action of medicines, the graduation of doses, and a 

 table of remedies, with the quantities of each proper to be adminis- 

 tered. Theories or pathological discussions, however interesting, are 

 passed by, in order to give simply and exclusively just what the 

 farmer wants to know — and that often in a great hurry — about the 

 treatment of a particular complaint. — Country Gentleman, 



