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making, at the hands of its hundreds of professors and 
cultivators, render it imperative on those who undertake to 
become its representatives on paper, in its newest or most 
recent phase, to almost unceasingly ply their pens in order 
to keep pace with this onward progress. Advances in 
chemistry carry with them advances in pharmacology, and 
both lend such material and important aid to therapeutics as 
necessarily to constitute preparatory acquirements to the 
mastering of the grand object — the treatment of disease. 
Antecedently to the appearance of the first edition of 
the work before us, ’which was so late as the year 1837, 
what almost amounted to a void existed in this depart- 
ment of veterinary science. We had but the worn-out w 7 orks 
of Bartlett, Taplin, White, and Blaine, and afterwards the 
‘ Pharmacopoeia Equina,’ of Bracy Clark ; all of which were 
superficial, and, for the greater part, inaccurately and un- 
chemically got up, and of little use to those w hose hands 
they happened to fall into. Our author’s first essay, less 
developed than the subsequent editions, and not above half the 
size of the present volume, commenced quite a new 7 era in this 
branch of our art : a fact to no one more evident than to the 
late Professor Coleman, to w T hom Mr. Morton dedicated his 
earliest labours. Since then he has had no competitor up to 
the present year. From the commencement of this year has 
made its issue from the press (as will be seen by an ad- 
vertisement upon the wrapper of our January number), a 
similar production, from the pen of Mr. Finlay Dun, Lecturer 
on Materia Medica at the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
It is probable that this work, however, (w 7 hich we have not 
yet seen,) may not be altogether a rival to the w 7 ork before 
us ; since its title w ould rather lead us to infer that it enters 
more into therapeutics; though Mr. Morton has done so 
almost sufficiently in the present edition, to authorize him 
to entitle it “A Manual of Pharmacy and Therapeutics 
&c.; the word pharmacy , which is but a branch of pharma- 
cology, being simply the art of teaching the knowledge of the 
choice, preservation, preparation, and combination of medi- 
cines. In our notice of the fourth edition, we stated , — “ The 
work w 7 ould be more valuable did it extend its reports of the 
