SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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TRATTATO TEORICO-PRATICO DI MATERIA MEDICA E TERAPEU- 
TICA VETERINARIA, (Theoretical and Practical Treatise of Veterinary 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics,) by Professor Lorenzo Brusasco, of the 
Turin Veterinary School. 
According to the author’s own statement this book is 
written principally for veterinary practitioners and veter¬ 
inary students—with the special object of assisting them in 
the applications of therapeutics to the treatment of their 
patients. Assisted by his own experience and studies, and by 
the results of his own observation and experiments at the 
clinics of the school in which he is a teacher, his exceptional 
opportunities have well served him, and Italian veterinary 
literature is materially enriched by a work which worthily 
illustrates the standing of the profession in that country. 
The book of Professor Brusasco forms a large volume of 
nearly seven hundred pages, and the material of that branch 
of veterinary medicine to which it is devoted is ably pre¬ 
sented to the reader. The first part, which treats of general 
pharmacology, with mode of administration, or application 
of drugs; intravenous injections; cutaneous medication; the 
manipulations of pharmaceutical preparations, etc., comprises 
four principal chapters. 
The second part is more complicated in its arrangements 
and forms what may be entitled the solid part of the work. 
The Avhole mass of medicaments is divided into seventeen 
principal groups, each one of them being subdivided into 
sub-groups or classes. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
ILLINOIS STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association held its seventh annual 
meeting at the Sherman House, Chicago, November 6th and 7th. 
The Association came to order at 2 p.m. Wednesday the 6tli, with President 
W. L. Williams in the chair. 
After the roll-call and reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, the 
President read his annual address. After touching upon various topics of inter¬ 
est to the' welfare of the society, and paying tribute to the memory of his former 
business partner, Dr. James Brodie, deceased, Dr. Williams spoke at length upon 
the subject of veterinary journalism. 
