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CORRESPONDENCE. 
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of the work on the dog which I have recently published mj 
reviewer says: 
“ If, however, ‘Comparative Physiology’ has succeeded 
in winning a success with the students of veterinary medi 
cine, we fear that ‘ The Dog, in Health and Disease,’ wi 
require a longer time to secure an equal result. This is nc 
because of any inferiority on the part of the book itself, bi 
because it fails to include certain matters which investigatoi 
and students in canine pathology would naturally expect t 
find in a new work which is destined to compete with tho'f 
of Youatt, Hill, Steele and others, already and so Ion 
in vogue. 
“The author, however, warns us in his Preface that ‘tl 
book is by no means intended for students and practitione 
of veterinary science alone. It is meant for all intellige 
persons who breed and keep the animal.’ This deprecatoi 
caution naturally relieves us from the task of fuithei cri 
cism on the Second Part, which forms nearly the latter he 
of the book ” 
I have never before replied to a review of any of my wor 
because in most instances they have been treated as liberal 
as I could expect, but the above statements are so vague ail 
at the same time so misleading that they are mischievous. 
My experience as a teacher of canine medicine has cc 
vinced me that unless students are specially interested in do 
as dogs—their varieties, points and what pertains to th 
care, etc. in health, they are not likely to become very entl 
siastic over the diseases of this animal nor likely to secure t 
confidence of owners of valuable dogs at least, when they en 
on practice. Hence I endeavored to pioduce a work o 
new plan, that should be the most comprehensive, modern a 
scientific extant, and your review is the first that has givei 
any other place. 
I have looked in vain in the works my reviewer names 
what my book fails to include that is found in those wor 
on the contrary, my work treats of many subjects ne 
before discussed in any work on the dog presented to the i 
erinary profession. 
