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Medecine Legale Vetcrinaire. (Veterinary Legal Medicine.) 
By Mr. Alfred Gallier (J. B. Bailliere and fils, Paris.) 
This is the fifth volume of the “ Cadeac Encyclopaedia,” to 
which we have already alluded to on previous occasions, and 
when referring to the first four volumes published some time 
ago. 
It is true, that when one on this side of the ocean receives 
and reads such a book, that he feels how deficient our English 
literature is, and how far backgards veterinary science is in this 
country, when compared with that of Europe. 
The idea of a work on veterinary legal medicine in English 
would almost seem ridicule if one would not consider what can 
be written on the subject of great value. 
Let us see what the fifth volume of the “Cadeac Encyclo¬ 
paedia ” contains : 
In the first part, where we have a definition of legal medi¬ 
cine properly, we are presented with the subjects of sodomy, 
bestiality, death, wounds in general, with all their varieties and 
the legislation relating to them, asphyxia, breach of varanty, 
contagious diseases, alimentary products and especially meat, 
life and accident insurances of animals, etc. 
In the second part, the responsibility of the veterinarians in 
their various capacities, of the empirics, of the horse-shoers, of 
the hostlers, of the owners of animals used for breeding pur¬ 
poses, etc. 
These formed about three-quarters of the work. Is it not 
enough to show the importance of the subject. 
The balance (third and fourth parts) relates to the studies 
and practice of veterinary medicine in France, with other items 
relating to the same. 
The fifth volume of the “Cadeac Encyclopaedia,” makes 
us wish for the early publication of the subsequent volumes, 
which we have no doubt will be issued in the same neat and 
rich manner familiar to the house of J. B. Bailliere and fils, the 
editors. 
