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“The ‘Treatise on Veterinary Pharmacy’ of Mr. Morton, which has run 
through four editions, has been kindly translated for us by M. Lecoq, the 
honourable director of the School of Lyons. 
“ The important memoir which Mr. Percivall has lately published on the 
‘Effects of Medicine on Horses,’ and which contains a vast number of 
experiments, has been rendered into Erench forms by M. Gourdon, chef de 
science at the Toulouse School. 
“ The most complete German work there is on the history of medicines 
is the excellent ‘ Treatise on Practical Pharmacology’ of M. Hertwig, pro- 
fessor at the Veterinary School at Berlin. 
“Our own work is divided into three distinct parts, forming as many 
special books. 
“ In the first book, under the head of ‘ General Pharmacology,’ we have 
explained, as succinctly as possible, all that concerns the general history of 
medicines ; while the second book, bearing the title of ‘ Special Pharma- 
cology,’ contains the description and particular history of all medicines used 
in the veterinary art, under the triple relation of pharmacology, pharmacy, 
and therapeutics. This is the part of the work to which we have conse- 
crated most time and care, on account of its high importance and great 
extent, since it forms about three fourths of our volume. 
“Lastly, in the third book, under the title of ‘Pharmacy, or Pharmaco- 
tecny,’ we have engaged ourselves on the pharmaceutical art, in the double 
point of view of theory and practice. After having treated, in a brief but 
substantial manner, on the harvesting, conservation, and preparation of 
simple medicines, we have carefully explained the art of compounding them, 
or methodically associating with them other medicines in order to make 
preparations of great complexity and utility — an important subject, scarcely 
broached in other veterinary works, though one that has been examined by 
us with a vast deal of attention.” 
Foreign Department. 
GENERAL REPORT OE THE LABOURS OF THE SCIENTIFIC 
COMMISSION, 
INSTITUTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, 
AND PUBLIC WORKS, FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EPI- 
ZOOTIC PERIPNEUMONIA OF CATTLE. 
A fatal epizootic, under the name of the contagious peri- 
pneumonia of cattle, has for a long time been prevalent 
among cattle in various parts of France and other parts of 
Europe. 
Confined, in former times, to various isolated regions of 
the mountains of Piedmont, Switzerland, Franche-Compte, 
the Jura, the Dauphine, the Vosges, the Pyrenees, and the 
Auvergne, the disease has not occasioned agriculture more than 
partial inroads, of which the public weal was hardly sensible. 
