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Contemporary Progress of Veterinary Science 
and Art. 
By John Gamgee, M.R.C.V.S., 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College. 
[Continued from p. 585.) 
A journal appears quarterly in Stuttgart, often quoted 
by us entitled — ‘ The Repertory of Veterinary Science. 5 
It is now in its seventeenth year, and Professor Hering, 
with whom it originated, is still its editor. Its most remark- 
able feature is the vast and complete collection of all the 
original matter contained in the contemporary veterinary 
periodicals that are issued in six different languages. The editor 
of such a journal must, of necessity, at the close of each 
successive year, have a most accurate and comprehensive 
knowledge of the progress of veterinary science ; and that 
knowledge is availed of, for the compiling an invaluable 
section of an invaluable yearly report on the advances made 
in each and all the sciences that combinedly constitute 
medicine in its widest sense. Canstatt’s ‘Annual Report 5 is 
edited by Hering, amongst others, and the article on c Veteri- 
nary Science for 1855,’ has but recently come to hand. In 
the introduction it is said that in 1855, as in 1854, but few 
works of importance and lasting worth have issued from the 
press ; periodical literature has continued to improve. The 
works meriting special attention are as follows — ‘ Handbook 
of Special Pathology and Therapeutics, 5 by Dr. Spinola, of 
Berlin ; a similar work by Dr. Roll, Director of the Veterinary 
School in Vienna. In French have appeared Chauveau’s 
‘Anatomy,’ and Gourdon’s ‘ Treatise on Surgery, 5 both of 
which, when complete, will tend to enrich the French lite- 
rature ; second editions of Delafond’s ‘ General Pathology, 5 
of Hering’s ‘ Treatise on Veterinary Medicines, 5 and of 
Percivall’s ‘ Hippopathology, 5 are mentioned nextly and 
lastly. 
Hering goes on to say that he will have, therefore, to deal 
with isolated observations, the worth of which often seems but 
trifling ; it is alone facts, either separate or accumulated in 
groups and series, that build the material which in due time 
acquires order and vitality from some leading idea, since its 
proper place is thus assigned to it, and with critical foresight. 
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