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toms, the carefully drawn diagnosis, and the correct reasoning 
on the mode of treatment, render it a most valuable work, not 
only to the junior practitioner, but to all those who wish to 
form correct ideas of the various forms of disease they are 
called on to treat — the simple but lucid classification of the 
progress of disease, from the common catarrh to the fatal 
pleuro-pneumonia, will afford to those who study it well the 
means of forming a decided and satisfactory diagnosis. 
We can scarcely speak in higher terms than this, and were 
almost afraid we should find no bone of contention with the 
author, barring — for in this we are obliged to trust entirely 
to his authority — the efficacy of salivation in the horse ; 
for we confess to having met with one or two such awkward 
results, in trying to produce this effect, that we have for a 
long time given it the wall ; should, however, time and expe- 
rience confirm his views, there can be no doubt of its being 
a most valuable adjunct to veterinary medicine — afraid we 
should find no bone of contention, till we came to the chapter 
on Pneumonia ; and then, though well pleased with symptoms, 
diagnosis, prognosis, and all, we felt the flush of our critical 
acumen coming over us, and, lying down the volume forth- 
with, sat erect in judgment thereon. 
It will be perceived we had read further and retraced our 
steps, when we allude to the use of tartarised antimony as a 
counter-irritant; for years our opinion has been that no animal 
ought to be allowed to die of pneumonia or pleurisy, without 
the application of tartar emetic ointment to the chest and 
sides, which is by far the most powerful counter-irritant we 
have ; and, in fact, it is the mere dread of its power that alone 
prevents its more general use ; unlike cantharides, which pro- 
duces merely vesicles from its operation, this produces pus- 
tules, and so apt are these to run into a state of sloughing that 
most fearful blemishes are too often the result ; but that it will 
take effect on the skin, when blisters are utterly powerless, and 
in this way will often save life, we are as firmly convinced as 
of any fact known to us — a drachm of antimony to an ounce 
of lard will produce a re-action over “the very ribs of death.” 
But it is at page 113, that instead of being “ all of a heap,” 
