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the needs of the student of to-day in that specialty. The progress 
which has been accomplished in this particular department of 
practice lias left them far in arrears of present requirements. 
The student will therefore warmly welcome the new and enlarged 
edition of “ Diseases of the Ox.” 
In this new work Professor Steel discusses, in eleven chapters 
and three appendices, all the diseases to which the large rumi¬ 
nants are liable, and every chapter is prepared equally in the clear 
and lucid literary style characteristic of the author. But among 
them all, the second chapter, with its two sections, has proved to 
us the most interesting. Treating of diseases of the blood, it 
comprehends all the contagious diseases of cattle, with their mode 
of treatment and of prophylaxy, treating incidentally the various 
subjects of vaccination and inoculation, in the consideration of 
which the labors and experiments of Willems, Pasteur, Cornevin, 
Arloing and others, are made familiar to the reader. 
“ Diseases of the Ox” forms a handsome volume of over 500 
well-printed pages. It is illustrated by over 100 good wood-cuts, 
and contains at the end a bibliography of cattle pathology in the 
English language, which shows on the part of the author a most 
thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject. 
Prof. J. H. Steel is already well known for the numerous 
writings for which English speaking people have become his 
debtors, and now, with this new edition of “Diseases of the Ox,” 
he has filled, for many years to come, a want which everyone 
must have felt when a desire or need of information or research 
has occurred in general practice. 
VETERINARY APPOINTMENTS. 
Dr. S. K. Johnston, D.Y.S., has been appointed Veterinary 
Surgeon to the Board of Health of the city of New York, after 
a successful examination according to the requirements of the 
Civil Service law. 
Dr. W. Lowe, D.V.S., already State Veterinary Inspector for 
the State of New Jersey, has been recently appointed Superin¬ 
tendent of the United States Cattle Quarantine at Garfield. 
