BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
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cannot fail to assist the interested reader in following the care¬ 
fully prepared text. The book is a valuable one, and its publica¬ 
tion cannot fail to add largely to the well won reputation of the 
author. It doubtless will, as it ought to be, thoroughly appre¬ 
ciated by all English-speaking practitioners, if for no other rea¬ 
son than its agency in correcting, as it does, existing erroneous 
impressions, by furnishing to the profession a conclusive and sat¬ 
isfying answer to those who would now charge upon veterinary 
science the existence of an uncured roarer as an opprobrium which 
it is unable to throw off. 
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. By Robert Meade Smith, 
A.M., M.D. F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. 
Taking into consideration the progress which comparative med¬ 
icine has accomplished within the past few years, and especially 
that which involves the department of veterinary science, and 
considering, moreover, the number of the works which have en¬ 
riched the bibliography of English veterinary literature, is it not 
a remarkable fact that while all other branches of this science have 
been more or less fully treated, one of them, indeed one of the 
principal, and as important and essential as any of the prelimi¬ 
nary studies which are introductory to all the others, that of phy¬ 
siology, to wit, should alone have been ignored ? For years vet¬ 
erinary schools have been established and in progress in England, 
Canada and the United States, with hundreds of students crowd¬ 
ing their halls, and hundreds have been graduated who were sup¬ 
posed to have studied veterinary physiology, yet how have they 
been able to do so ? In fact they have been obliged to learn the 
physiology of the horse by studying that of the human animal. 
It is true that there is a great deal of similarity and sometimes 
somewhat of identity in the execution of the various functions of 
the body in all animals, but there are likewise great and import¬ 
ant differences, and the student who has not acquired a knowledge 
of foreign tongues, and cannot study the works of French or 
German authors in the original, can never be without a disap¬ 
pointing sense of his inability to educate himself in his profes¬ 
sion as thoroughly as he might and ought to desire. Veterinary 
