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PRECIS DE THERAPEUTIQUE, MATIERE, MEDIC ALE ET PHAR- 
MACIE VETERINAIRES. (Treati8e on Veterinary Therapeutics, Materia 
Medica and Pharmacy.) By Paul Cagny. (J. B. Bailliere & Fils : Paris. 
We thank our friend Cagny, and avail ourselves ol the 
columns of the Review to return him our compliments for 
his courtesy in favoring us with an opportunity of examining 
this excellent little work. Its fine literary execution, the 
judicious arrangement of its contents, and the specially inter¬ 
esting facts which he has collected, must combine to render 
it not merely a valued acquisition to the library of the veter¬ 
inarian, but well nigh an indispensable necessity in his daily 
practice. 
The work treats, under four heads, of general therapeutics, 
veterinary materia medica, with special therapeutics and the 
same applied, with also the effects of drugs, and their special 
action. The subject of the antiseptic philosophy, including 
the questions both of asepsy and antisepsy are carefully 
reviewed, and the principles and their application of this im¬ 
portant discovery or development in scientific surgery 
receive special attention from the author and are adjudicated 
with the intelligent authority befitting his many years of per¬ 
sonal cognizance of the matter. 
A number of engraved illustrations add value to the book. 
Readers of French will find great interest and profit in con¬ 
sulting this work of Mr. Cagny. 
FORMULAIRE VETERINAINE, (Veterinary Compendium,) By Bouohardrt 
and Vignardon : (Felix Alcan, Paris). 
This is another of what may be denominated at once the 
source and the product of veterinary progress, though this par¬ 
ticular volume is not one of the freshly original kind, being the 
fourth edition of a work which must necessarily be of es¬ 
tablished value to demand so frequent a reissue. 
It forms a magazine of ammunition lor veterinarians, being a 
copious collection of prescriptions and directions for pharma¬ 
ceutical preparations. There is nothing like it in the English 
language, unless we include the Vade Mecum of Gamgee, 
published some years ago, but now out of print. 
