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BOOK NOTICE8. 
all domestic animals, the work which has been written by Mr. 
John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., upon the diseases of the elephant, 
will be accepted by veterinarians wherever this animal has been 
reduced to a state of domesticity, as a book which has been for a 
long time a necessity. But it is not alone in this character that 
this little manual of Mr. Steel’s recommends itself to favor. It 
is also as a contribution to the literature of comparative medicine 
that it is valuable. We have received a copy and have enjoyed 
its reading, and cordially recommend it to everyone whose pecu¬ 
liar engagements or duties may involve an interest in the subject 
matter of the treastise. The first part of it treats of the natural 
history of the elephant, and of its uses as an agency and element 
in the equipment of modern armies as well as an animal of trans¬ 
port; while the second part, in eleven chapters, makes the reader 
acquainted with the ailments to which this animal is liable, closing 
with the therapeutics and uses of medicines which find their 
principal indications in the treatment of the diseases referred to. 
The book is printed by Mr. W. H. Moore, at the Lawrence Asy¬ 
lum Press, Mount Road, Madras, India. 
VETERINARY SURGICAL PATHOLOGY AND PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 
Another Indian book comes to us in the work above named, 
for which we are indebted to the kindness of the authors, Professor 
John Burke and Mr. R. W. Burke. It is said to be the first 
volume, and is illustrated with numerous plates, taken from 
original drawings and photographs. We offer our thanks to the 
authors for the compliment, but we are sorry to be obliged to 
confess our inability to render to the work the justice of a review, 
on account of a defect in our educational acquirements, which 
were suspended before we had quite mastered the Hindoo tongue. 
If we may judge by the headings of some of the subjects, and by 
the quality of some of the illustrations, we are sure it must be a 
valuable addition to Hindoo veterinary literature. 
CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES. By Dk. Murray, of Detroit, is an¬ 
nounced among recent publications, and is highly spoken of by the Breed¬ 
ers' Gazette. 
EVERY MAN HIS OWN VETERINARIAN. By G. S. Heatlby, M.R.C.V.S. 
is published by the O. Judd Co., of New York. 
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