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promising to lead the way to reform and amendment in 
veterinary literature. 
In his “ Preface/’ Mr. Dun tells us that his reason for 
setting about the composition of the present work was, 
“ during the four years in which I have lectured on Materia 
Medica at the Edinburgh Veterinary College, I have en- 
deavoured in vain to find a suitable text book for my class. 
The meagreness and inaccuracies of the published works on 
Veterinary medicines , are such as to have compelled me to use 
Christison’s Dispensatory,” &c. 
This is undeserved, on the part of one work at least, of the 
same class, which came out some years ago, a fifth edition of 
which has this year been called for. The denial puts one in 
mind of the old ballad, — 
“ Through all the employments of life 
Each neighbour abuses his brother ! ” 
Bracy Clark’s Pharmacopoeia Equina was certainly a 
singular failure ; and the more extraordinary this, when we 
come to learn how high the name of Bracy Clark stands as a 
writer in the literary circle of our own country, and with 
scientific men in other countries, as well as our own. No 
man, perhaps, ever wrote so learnedly so much to so little 
purpose. 
The contents and arrangement of the (present) work are 
as follows: — “The general actions and uses of veterinary 
medicine, and the more important pharmaceutical prepara- 
tions, are treated of in the Introduction. The rest of the 
volume is occupied with the consideration of the medicines 
used in Veterinary practice ; the points chiefly dwelt upon 
being their natural history, preparation, properties, and most 
common impurities and adulterations; their general actions 
on the various domesticated animals, and their uses, doses, 
and medicinal forms.” 
The works Mr. Dun has chiefly consulted in the prepara- 
tion of his volume, he says, are. Professor Christison’s 
c Dispensatory’ and c Treatise on Poisons;’ the late Professor 
Pereira’s * Elements of Materia Medica;’ Mr. Headland’s 
‘ Essay on the Actions of Medicines;’ the c Edinburgh 
