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averic pathology. We have on previous occasions promised 
good success to the author and ready sales to the publishers, 
and we are pleased to find that our prognosis promises to be 
well fulfilled, and that the exhaustion of the edition recently 
issued will soon necessitate a renewal of the work of the press¬ 
men and binders. 
PATHOLOGIE AND THERAPEUTIQUE SPECIALES DES ANIMAUX 
DOMESTIQUES, (Special Pathology nnd Therapeutic of the Domestic 
Animals) by Dr. Friedberger and Frohner —(French translation by 
Prof. Cadiot and J. N. Ries, with annotatians of Director Trasbot.) 
Asselin and Houzeau : Paris. 
The second part of the first volume of this work has just 
reached us. Its topics are diseases of the urinary, the 
genital and the circulatory systems, and the diseases ol the 
skin. 
ELECTRICITY, its application in medicine, by Wellington Adams, M.D. 
Geo. S. Davis, Detroit. 
Two nice little volumes of the series of the “ Bijou Li¬ 
brary,” initiating the reader into an interesting and important 
branch of therapeutics. They are well written as to text, neat¬ 
ly printed as to typography : agreeable reading as to the 
subject; and must form a valuable contribution to the great 
science of therapeutics. They cannot fail to be a valuable 
addition to the library of the veterinarian and the physician. 
Progress of Hippophagy. By Chas. Morst. 
Privileges of Veterinarians. By L. Garnier. 
Two pamplets of valuable interest to those concerned in 
the subjects treated. 
OBITUARY. 
WILLIAM DICKSON, V.S. 
A Tribute to a Dead Friend.— Recently elected assistant- 
chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, D. C., 
William Dickson died suddenly on May u, 1891. 
“ De mortibus nil nisi heue,” true as it is, is not, however, 
the impulse for the following words to the profession. It is 
rather the exceptional case which this admirable man present¬ 
ed, that asks for a comment from one who knew him well. 
