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REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — II or. 
Traite Elementaire de Matiere Medicale , on de Pharmacologie 
Veterinaire , suivi d’un Formulaire Pharmaceutique Raisonne. 
Par L. Moiroud, Ex-Directeur de l’£cole Veterinaire 
de Toulouse, &c. 2me Edit., Toulouse, 1843. 
Traite de Maticre Medicate et de Pharmacie Veterinaires , Theo- 
retique et Pratique. Par MM. O. Delafond, Professeur 
de Pathologie et de Matiere Medicale a l’Lcole Imperiale 
Veterinaire d’Alfort; et J. L. Lassaigne, Professeur de 
Chemie et de Pharmacie a la meme Ecole. 2me Edit., 
Paris, 1843. 
Nouveau Traite de Maticre Medicale , de Therapeutique et de 
Pharmacie Veterinaire , fyc. Par M. F. Tabourin, Pro- 
fesseur de Physique, Chemie, Matiere Medicale, et 
Pharmacie, a l’fecole Veterinaire Imperiale de Lyon. 
Accompagne de 82 Figures. Paris, 1853. 
H ere we have, lying upon our table, pretty well all that is 
worth possessing regarding modern French pharmacology. 
‘La Matiere Medicale’ of Bourgelat, and ‘ La Medicine Vete- 
rinaire’ of Vitet, constitute two works which now come into 
the category of ancient , — though both were highly prized in 
their day, and still remain valuable to us as books of refe- 
rence; the modern works, comprising those of Lebas, 
Moiroud, Delafond, and Lassaigne, and the present one of 
Tabourin (whose titles are given above), being those, with 
one or two more, only worthy our regard. 
We have so recently had under our hand the only two 
English works on Pharmacology we can boast of as worthy 
perusal, that the modern history of British pharmacology is 
soon told — such works as those of White, Blaine, and Youatt 
being made of too scanty and superficial descriptions of 
matters to make any pretensions to a place alongside of the 
