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author and have credited him for their value. To-day our at¬ 
tention is called to this new book, the fifth edition of a previous 
one, which was issued nearly twenty years ago, in 1879. 
This edition is far ahead of those which successfully have 
been presented to the public in 1885, 1889 and 1892, it is con¬ 
siderably enlarged, is illustrated by steelplates and numerous 
cuts ot value, and contains as complete a description of the dis¬ 
eases of horses, with indications of treatment, as can be expected 
in a work of this kind. It is not, properly speaking, a work of 
classical value, nor one which can be considered as the book for 
veterinary students, and 'yet they, or even the old practitioners, 
will find in it many points of interest and of value. 
To the ordinary reader, to the private horse owner, Mr. G. 
Armatage has presented an excellent work; by its perusal they 
will obtain a great deal of good information, and we believe, lots 
of good advice, and yet, valuable as every man his own horse 
doctor may be; popular as its reading may prove, we cannot help 
but think that we have found more professional value in other 
works which it has been our privilege to read from the same 
author. 
The entire subject of equine pathology is divided into ten 
principal sections ; the eleventh and twelfth which follow treat 
more of surgical affections and operations. Section thirteenth 
speaks of poisons, while section fourteenth forms a dispensatory 
semi-therapeutic and materia medica. A brief dictionary or 
giossaiy completes the S58 pages of the work, which is hand¬ 
somely gotten up, well printed and easily read. 
Manual of Veterinary Microbiology. By Prof. Mosselman 
and Lienaux ; translated and edited by Prof. R. R. Dinwiddie, of 
the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Robert Clarke 
Co., Cincinnati, O. 
Prof. R. R. Dinwiddie has done a service to the veterinary 
profession in translating Mosselman and Lienaux’s Manual of 
Veterinary Microbiology into the English language, and thus 
made this valuable work accessible to those not conversant with 
