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up his knowledge to date, and deal with sanitary problems in a 
manner which was not available for the practitioner five or ten 
years ago. Space does not permit of a review of this most ex¬ 
cellent literary production, that can in any way nearly approach 
what it merits, any more than the reviewer can possibly do justice 
to the work of so great a veterinarian, teacher and writer, as is 
its author; but we believe that our judgment will not be ques¬ 
tioned when we say that Law’s Text Book of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine is one of the most complete and comprehensive works on 
modern veterinary medicine that has ever been published in this 
or any other country. Aside from the author’s immense fund of 
information, he is a born teacher; and the same pleasant, yet 
forceful and convincing manner with which he imparts his knowl¬ 
edge in the class-room, is felt throughout the several chapters of 
his text-book. Printed on good paper, in clean, clear type, each 
volume is bound in red with gold lettering; the five volumes make 
a handsome apd impressive set of books that should grace the 
library of every veterinarian, and will prove of inestimable value 
to physicians interested in comparative medicine. 
SURGICAL AND OBSTETRICAL OPERATIONS. 
Surgical and Obstetrical Operations, by W. L. Williams, Professor of 
Surgery and Obstetrics in the New York State Veterinary College, Cor¬ 
nell University. Embodying portions of the Operationscursus of Dr. Pfeif¬ 
fer, Professor of Veterinary Science in the University of Giessen. Third 
edition, revised and enlarged; 240 pages, with 73 illustrations: 1912. 
Ithaca, N. Y., Carpenter and Company. 
This work, which has resulted as a gradual evolution from 
the booklet published by Professors W. Pfeiffer and W'. L. Wil¬ 
liams in 1900, entitled “A Course in Surgical Operations,” has 
attained a degree of perfection that it would be difficult to excel 
in a work of that kind. The cuts illustrating parts to be operated 
upon, the operative procedures, and the instruments employed, 
are clear and concise; printed upon excellent paper, each cut 
usually occupying a page, where it is set in the center, with a clear 
white background—the description of the plate being set in the 
same manner on a page opposite to the illustration; making the 
study of the illustrations easy and pleasant, and their meaning 
easy of comprehension; essentials in a work on surgery. The text 
is expressed in that clear, comprehensive manner devoid of all 
superfluous terms, which characterizes all of Professor Williams’ 
works, or lectures, so well known to the veterinary profession. 
Part I. contains four divisions grouped as follows: I., operations 
