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REVIEWS. 
rumour of an outbreak of rinderpest in a cargo of Dutch 
cattle in a place where cargoes of Dutch cattle could not be 
landed while the Netherlands remained on the list of 
scheduled countries. 
Reviews. 
Quid sit pulchrura, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hor. 
Symptomes, Lesions Anatomiques, Causes et Nature du 
Typhus Contagieux considere dans les Differentes Especes 
d’Animaux Domestiques. By J. M. Wehenkel, Veteri- 
nary Surgeon, Doctor in Medicine, Surgery, and Mid- 
wifery. Professor at the Brussels Veterinary School. 
Brussels, 1870. 
Du Typhus Contagieux Epizootique. By Ed. Dele, Govern- 
ment Veterinary Surgeon at Antwerp. Brussels, 1871. 
La Peste Bovine ou Typhus Contagieux Epizootique en 
Angleterre (1865-67). By the same Author. Brussels, 
1870. 
Perhaps in the whole range of medical literature, even if 
we include comparative with human pathology, there is not 
to be found a single malady which has given rise to more 
treatises, dissertations, and essays than the Cattle Plague. 
Since the commencement of the eighteenth century, the 
observers and writers who have devoted their attention to 
this serious bovine scourge, and who have published works 
on it, may be reckoned by hundreds, and yet the subject 
would appear to be like the widow of Zarephath’s cruse of 
oil in furnishing an unfailing supply of material for illumi- 
nation and wonder. Each visitation of the pest, each irrup- 
tion beyond its supposed home into regions where it is only 
known as an exotic malady, has been accompanied or followed 
by an eruption of monographs so numerous and so diverse in 
their character, that the catalogue had reached an amazing 
size before 1865. Since that period, when Britain was visited 
for perhaps about the twelfth time, the list of continental 
authors has been largely supplemented, and the value of 
their labours, in a scientific point of view, greatly enhanced 
by more accurate observation and minute research. The ex- 
perience of the direful effects of the disease has not been 
without its advantages to veterinary science, especially in 
those countries on the Continent which had the misfortune 
