BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS. 
Clinical Diagnostics, A Text-Book of Clinical Diagnostics of the Internal 
Diseases of Domestic Animals, by Bernard Malkmus, Professor of 
Theory and Practice and Director of the Clinic for Internal Diseases at 
the Royal Veterinary College of Hanover, Germany. Fourth edition; 
revised and enlarged. Translated from the latest revised German edi¬ 
tion by David S. White, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, 
Ohio State University, and Paul Fischer, State Veterinarian of Ohio. 
Octavo, 259 pages, with 55 illustrations and 4 colored plates. Half 
leather, $3.00 net. Alexander Eger, publisher, Chicago. 
Clinical Diagnostics is an excellent work, just from the press, 
bearing the publisher’s date of 1912. It is of convenient size for 
easy handling and arranged for ready and convenient reference. 
The cuts are clear and strikingly illustrative, the chapters are 
short, the descriptive matter concise and to the point. In the au¬ 
thor's preface to the first edition he, says, at the very outset: 
“ The only safe foundation for the treatment of animal diseases 
is a correct diagnosis of the malady.” And that sentiment char¬ 
acterizes the work throughout. It is a guide for the diagnos¬ 
tician, the subjects being presented in a clear, at the same time, 
condensed form, so that a great amount of information may be 
gained with a small amount of reading. In Clinical Diagnostics 
the reader gets the benefit not only of many of Europe’s greatest 
diagnosticians, but also ofi two of America’s foremost veterin¬ 
arians and teachers, who have given of their valuable time in 
order to place this wonderful little work of Prof. Malkmus in the 
hands of American veterinariary students and practitioners, hav¬ 
ing been prompted to make the translation through a realization 
of the need of just such a text-book for the students in the Col¬ 
lege of Veterinary Medicine of the Ohio State University. The 
work is thoroughly up-to-date, and describes not only each dis¬ 
ease, but in an easy, lucid manner explains the method of con¬ 
ducting an examination and arriving at a diagnosis in each par¬ 
ticular malady. The paper is good, the type clean and easy to 
read, the cuts graphically illustrative of the subjects they repre¬ 
sent and, altogether, Clinical Diagnostics is a valuable aid to stu¬ 
dents and practitioners of veterinary medicine, and will tend to 
make them better diagnosticians. 
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