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seemed to call for such a course, were imbued rather with a 
“come and buy my medicine” spirit than with any indication of 
founding a branch of science of which he in after years became 
the acknowledged “ Father.” While Coleman was engaged 
in wresting horse medicine out of the hands of ignorance and 
presumption, and endeavouring to clothe it in the dress of 
science and humanity, Blaine was engaged in essaying to do 
the same for canine pathology; there being manifest this differ- 
ence, however, between the labours of the respective professors, 
that, while Coleman was receiving aid from all around him, 
Blaine was left to his own unassisted exertions. Still, refor- 
mation and improvement became evident, not in Blaine’s 
practice alone, but in his literary works as well, each suc- 
cessive reprint surpassing the former one ; until we reach that 
appearing as the “ third edition” of the “ Canine Pathology,” 
between which and the fourth, which was his last, we find no 
material difference. 
It was in the “third edition” that Blaine first arranged “the 
matter of the work” into “ three parts” : — the first embracing 
“the Natural History of the Dog;” the second, his “ Breeding 
and Rearing;” the third, his “Diseases,” which are distributed 
into “ classes.” Nor do we find this arrangement disturbed in his 
“ Fourth” and last edition. In the “ Fifth Edition,” the one 
now before us, “ revised and corrected” by Mr Mayer, we 
have the three condensed into two parts: — Part I comprising, 
inclusive of the “ Introduction,” Chapter I, on the “Breeding 
and Rearing of Dogs ;” Chapter II, on the “General Treatment 
of Dogs;” Part II being devoted wholly to the “Diseases of 
Dogs.” If, however, from the former division we detach the 
“ Introduction,” as giving the natural history of the dog, and 
call that Part I, there will be found no real deviation from 
Blaine’s original plan. 
t( In discharging the duty,” says Mr. Mayer, “ that has de- 
volved upon us in revising this edition, we have been desirous 
of contributing our mite to the well-being of the canine race, 
regretting that our literary and professional experience has not 
enabled us to do greater justice to our subject. We have not, 
however, been so much desirous of adding new, and possibly 
but at best crude, ideas of our own, as we have been to give 
