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Traite Elementaire de Mature Medicate , ou de P harmacologie 
Veterinaire , suivi d’un Formulaire Pharmaceuti gue Paisonni 
Par L. Moiroud, Ex-Directeur de l’fecole Veterinaire 
de Toulouse, &c. 2me Edition, revise, corrigee, et aug- 
ments par l’auteur. Toulouse, 1843, 8vo. pp- 640. 
An Elementary Treatise on Materia Medica , or Veterinary Phar- 
mocology, followed by a Pharmaceutical Formulary raisonne. 
By L. Moiroud, Ex-Professor of the Veterinary School 
of Toulouse. 8vo., pp. 640, Toulouse, 1843. Second 
Edition. 
The f Pharmacology ’ of Moiroud was for many years the 
class-book of the French Veterinary Schools, and deservedly 
gained the preference of those who found it necessary to 
consult a work of the kind, being at the time the chief phar- 
maceutical guide of veterinary practitioners. The first 
edition had been for some time out of print, when the heirs 
of M. Moiroud, at numerous urgent requests, were induced, 
in 1843, to launch the present edition through the press, with 
care to expunge from it such errata as had inadvertently 
crept into the first impression, and to substitute the decimal 
system — then the only one in use — for the ancient weights 
and measures, which latter has still been retained for fear of 
any want being felt of due comparison between the old and 
new T weights and measures. The small number of pharma- 
cological works in existence in times before Moiroud 
published, with the scanty information to be obtained of the 
physiological action of remedies and their principal indi- 
cations, which even the 4 Traite de Matiere Medicale/ of 
Bourgelat, did not sufficiently make up for was a further 
plea. Moiroud consulted the work of the founder of the 
French Veterinary Schools (Bourgelat), he says, with care 
and with profit, though he appears to have derived most in- 
formation from the ‘Dictionnair de Medecine 5 , in 21 volumes- 
Veterinary Materia Medica comprises that essential part 
of animal medicine engaged in the investigation of medica- 
ments, under such relations as determine their selection and 
direct their employment. 
