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and natural, the language and style above criticism, and the 
illustrations, of which there are about six hundred, are well 
executed and admirably designed to elucidate the text and 
render the writer’s meaning clear. 
The initial chapter, devoted to the various modes of re¬ 
straint, is exhaustive and replete with valuable suggestions. 
The various methods of restraining animals by distracting the 
attention of the patient by means of pain from the operation 
in progress or contemplation ; the confining and controlling 
of the animal’s movements by mechanical means, included in 
side-lines, casting apparatus, stocks and operating tables ; the 
removal of the sense of pain by general or local anaesthesia, 
are all considered in detail from economic and humanitarian 
standpoints, and the advantages, disadvantages and dangers 
of each method carefully considered ; an especially timely T 
plea is made for the more general use of local anaesthetics for 
both surgical and diagnostic purposes. The various acci¬ 
dents following the use of anaesthetics, and the different forms 
of restraint are carefully brought out, and means for their 
prevention suggested. Then follows a brief and suggestive 
chapter on surgical diagnosis, followed by a more extensive 
one on therapeutics in which the means for applying and re¬ 
taining dressings, etc., on various parts of the body are ably 
discussed. 
The following chapter devoted to elementary operations ; 
operations on the skin and cellular tissue; on bones and on 
muscles and their annexes are all that could be desired, while 
the chapter devoted to operations upon the digestive system 
is exhaustive, detailing the great variety of operations upon 
this apparatus in an excellent manner. 
The chapter devoted to operations on the respiratory ap¬ 
paratus is chiefly interesting on account of the subject of ary- 
tenectomy, a procedure which has led to much comment dur¬ 
ing the past few years from the very contradictory reports 
of results, a subject which the author considers fully and fairly. 
The chapter devoted tomeurotomy is one of special worth, 
giving very minute and excellent details for this operation, 
and recording very favorable results. 
