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conditions. Notwithstanding the fact that the reviewer of the 
Veterinary Journal (England) finds so much fault with the 
work of Prof. Winslow, it is destined to supersede Dun’s u Vet¬ 
erinary Medicines ” in all English-speaking schools where prej¬ 
udice is not the controlling factor, as seems to be the case with 
everything veterinary which bears the American stamp in the 
eyes of our London contemporary. 
The work under consideration is systematically arranged, 
beginning with a chapter upon “Preliminary Considerations,” 
which include definitions, mode of action of drugs, absorption of 
drugs, and their elimination. Then the “ Circumstances Mod¬ 
ifying the Actions of Drugs,” such as the mode of administra¬ 
tion, dosage, anatomy and physiology, time of administration, 
habit, disease, and idiosyncrasy. Following this comes a con¬ 
sideration of the “ General Actions of Drugs,” with special ref¬ 
erence to those acting on the digestive organs, the circulation, 
the nervous system, the respiratory organs, the urinary and 
sexual apparatuses, those influencing metabolism, bodily heat, 
and those acting on the skin. The chapter on “ Pharmacy ” 
deals with the more important medicinal bodies and principles 
contained in drugs, pharmaceutical processes and preparations ; 
official preparations, classifying them according to their solvents 
and their modes of preparation. “ Incompatibility ” is treated 
of in three pages, while u Prescription Writing ” is most thor¬ 
oughly discussed. In the “ Classification ” the general div¬ 
ision of “inorganic agents” and “vegetable drugs” is made, 
and then the subject of materia medica proper occupies the body 
of the work, and we are quite safe in saying that, although 
there may be many errors of omission, there are few of commis¬ 
sion in the conservative estimate of the work of Dr. Winslow. 
Not content with arranging his subject under comprehensive 
section headings, he makes his work more complete as a refer¬ 
ence-book by presenting a chapter upon “ Doses of Drugs ” for 
all domestic animals, and then takes up the subject of “ General 
Therapeutic Measures,” discussing food and feeding, counter- 
irritants, cold and heat, disinfectants, antiseptics, and deodor¬ 
ants, venesection, transfusion, saline infusion, hypodermoclysis, 
and enteroclysis, closing his work by a most complete “ Index 
of Diseases and Remedial Measures,” and a “ General Index.” 
Already the text-book of Dr. Winslow has been adopted in 
many of the colleges of this country, and it is safe to predict 
that it will receive the endorsement of practitioners wherever it 
is introduced. 
