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in the last fifteen years have completely transformed the etiology 
and the pathogeny of many of the affections of man and animals. 
The author was among the first to gather together the facts 
which related to parasites of men, and the success that his first 
work received has induced him to publish the present book, where 
the non-bacterian parasitic diseases of animals with their para¬ 
sites are considered. 
The usefulness of such work cannot be contested. The 
writings concerning the parasitology of domestic animals are 
spread in isolated publications which treat of this special subject, 
or in periodicals more or less read. To collect all those docu¬ 
ments together, to arrange them and study them with a clear and 
precise method, was indispensable, and it is with that object in 
view that Prof. Neveu-Lemaire has written this work which, no 
doubt, is going to be of immense advantage to professional para¬ 
sitologists and naturalists but also and principally to veteri¬ 
narians; students and practitioners will consult it with great 
interest, and it will soon find its way into the library of all those 
who wish to be well posted in parasitology of domestic animals. 
The plan of the work is simple. The first part treats of vege¬ 
table parasites, the second of animal. In each part the various 
parasites are studied, as much as possible in their botanical or 
their zoological order, and after the description of each one its 
pathogenous action is indicated. 
At the end of the principal paragraphs there is exposed, in a 
concise manner, the simplest methods which will permit the prac¬ 
titioner to make, with his microscope and a few reacting agents, 
the parasitologic diagnosis. Finally the book ends with the list 
of the domestic animals and their parasites, arranged according 
to the various organs where thev are found. 
Illustrated with 770 plates, this book covers over 1,200 pages 
of easily read matter, well printed and forming a handsome vol¬ 
ume whose contents are divided into four chapters: 1. Patho¬ 
genous fungi and mycosis. 2. Pathogenous protozoa and proto- 
zoosis. 3. Parasite worms and helminthiasis. 4. Anthropod 
parasites, scabs and insects. The book costs 16 francs and can 
