444 review — Blaine’s canine pathology. 
added to other advantages, being in consonance with the ad- 
vanced state of the zoology of the day. 
In Part 2 (Part 3 of Blaine), treating of “ the diseases of 
dogs,” Mr. Mayer has substituted a nosological arrangement in 
conformity with “ Stevens’ Synopsis of Diseases,” for Mr. 
Blaine’s, which is a classification decidedly faulty ; not only in 
departing from the principles on which it appears to have 
primarily set out, but as being chargeable — even as he himself 
has shewn it to be — with inconsistency. Blaine, for example, 
lapses from class 1, comprising “Febrile affections;” 2, “Inflam- 
mation of mucous membranes 3, “ Inflammation of the brain 
into class 4, “ Inflammatory affections of the thoracic vis- 
cera;” 5, “ Inflammatory affections of the abdominal viscera 
which is, commencing with grouping diseases according to that 
most natural classification, of tissues affected by them ; and 
following that up, by classing others together in families accord- 
ing to an assemblage of organs devoted to one common func- 
tion, but of vast difference in their tissue or structure ; of which 
arrangement in Class 3, Blaine himself finds the inconvenience 
in being compelled, under the heading of “ Diseases of the ali- 
mentary canal,” to refer back to class 1 for Gastritis , Enteritis , 
and Bilious Colic. Difficult as nosological classification is, and 
objectionable in some respects as it is almost sure to be, in 
any form, still has Mr. Mayer decidedly improved upon Blaine in 
making the alterations he has. We likewise prefer a nosology 
in Latin to one in English ; for the same reason that we give 
choice to a Latin over an English prescription. Of popular 
“ dog and horse medicine’’ we have had enough, or, at least, our 
poor, dumb, suffering patients have had enough ; and it is for 
their sake, more than for our own, that we hail, as a happy omen 
in veterinary literature, this re-dress of the work before us in a 
garb which will give it, what it has much wanted, an air of 
science and orthodoxy. 
In the detailed accounts of disease, in its several forms and 
varieties, Mr. Mayer has deemed it requisite to make but few 
alterations from the text of his author; and these few, far 
between as they are, unless one were to institute a verbatim 
comparison between his edition and Blaine’s fourth, would fall 
