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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
MANUAL OF OPERATIVE VETERINARY SURGERY. By A. Liautard, 
M.D., V.M. Sabiston & Murray, Publishers, New York. 
Under the foregoing title Prof. Liautard, Principal of the 
American Veterinary College, has rendered an unusually val¬ 
uable service to English-speaking veterinarians by contribu¬ 
ting a volume which, from the important field it covers, the 
author’s intimate practical knowledge of the subject under 
consideration, which is clearly impressed on every page ; his 
equally evident familiarity with the experience and deduc¬ 
tions of leading veterinarians throughout the world; the 
ample illustrations, which often serve .far better than words; 
the ease of style, clearness of expression, and convenience of 
arrangement, will be cheerfully accorded a high and endur¬ 
ing place among standard English veterinary writings, and 
should win a place in the library of progressive veterinarians. 
Professor Liautard is already well known as a writer on 
veterinary science through his less pretentious but admittedly 
valuable volumes: “Vade Mecum of Equine Anatomy,” 
How to tell the Age of Domestic Animals,” “ Animal Castra¬ 
tion ” and “ Lameness of Horses,” and as translator of Bou- 
ley on “ Hydrophobia ” and Zundel on “ Diseases of the Foot.” 
The author very appropriately dedicates the volume to 
Dr. A. Chauveau, the illustrious anatomist and scientist, who 
has done so much for veterinary science in general, and has 
through his “Anatomy of Domestic Animals” contributed espe¬ 
cially to that department of veterinary learning which directly 
forms the essential foundation for scientific operative surgery. 
The field covered is a wide and important one, hitherto unoc¬ 
cupied in English veterinary literature, although some of 
Prof. Liautard’s above mentioned writings have to a degree 
touched upon a part of the present work, and Dr. Fleming 
published as early as 1884 his first part of 4< Operative Veter¬ 
inary Surgery,” which remains unfinished. 
The work consists of 786 compactly written pages, the ar¬ 
rangement of the subject matter is in every way convenient 
