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§ 14. All boards relating to Equine matters shall include at 
least one (1) Veterinarians as a member thereof. 
§ 15. This Bill shall take effect immediately. 
REVIEWS AND NOTICES. 
A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE DOG. By John Henry 
Steel, M.R.C.V.S., A.Y.D. (Longman, Green & Co., London.) 
Though our English literature on Canine Pathology has for 
the last few years been enriched with works on the subject of 
no little value, there has always existed a lack of thorough mod¬ 
ern elevation, and, while most of them have been more or less 
satisfactory compilations, on that account they were not on a 
level with the scientific progress of our age. 
Mr. John H. Steel, who has already published several works 
on veterinary matters, has tried to fill up this gap, and well has 
he succeeded. His new treatise is now before the veterinary 
public, and all those who will read it will find in it a most excel¬ 
lent book, where the author not only gives the results of his own 
experience, but also has, in many pages, given that of continental 
writers. The 280 pages which form the neatly issued volume 
are divided into thirteen chapters, illustrated by eighty-eight 
wood-cuts, obtained from books well known to the profession. In 
the opening chapter the writer indulges in some general remarks 
upon the value, importance, and necessity of specialists in educa¬ 
tion, accompanied by valuable remarks upon the prevalence of 
empiricism — a part of the book that our American public would 
do well to appreciate; concluding with reference to some general 
disorders. Chapter second is a concise materia medicse. In the 
following chapter, diseases of the blood are extensively treated, 
rabies amongst them. It receives careful and extended attention 
from the author, and the subject is learnedly treated down to the 
present day. Diseases of the circulatory, respiratory, and diges¬ 
tive apparatus form the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters, — this 
last being completed by an excellent appendix^on^abdominal 
surgery. The urinary and generative apparatus fill the seventh 
