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account on the basis and classification of Paget, showing 
pretty clearly that the most malignant in man, the cancerous, 
are comparatively rare in our patients. 
Wounds, their classification, treatment, methods of repair 
and results, together with the diseases and injuries of the 
facial region, including those of the pharynx and oesophagus, 
receive a careful and minute description throughout. 
On the somewhat difficult but interesting subjects of 
diseases of the eyes, of the arteries and blood-vessels gene¬ 
rally, there is a good amount of special surgical knowledge, 
with a concise digest of all that is worth knowing, or rather, 
we ought to say, of all that is likely to be practically useful. 
Following the consideration of hernia, diseases of the 
bladder, &c., is a chapter devoted to castration, which, pro¬ 
perly enough, direct attention to those sanitary conditions 
needful to be attended to, so as to ensure an average amount 
of success. We are inclined to think—notwithstanding Mr. 
Williams’s expressed confidence in the superiority and hu¬ 
manity of the method of operating by torsion—that, in de¬ 
ference to the opinions of others, modes even more extensively 
employed ought to have had more than a passing notice. 
The latter chapters—from the thirty-seventh to the forty- 
first—are occupied with a dissertation on the diseases of the 
skin. Here Professor Williams has by a judicious elimina¬ 
tion of many things, and a perspicuous description of those 
which are essential, rendered the subject intelligible to all 
who will give it only ordinary attention. 
Distributed throughout the book, illustrative of the text, 
are four pages of photo-lithographs, and upwards of one 
hundred and thirty woodcuts. With few exceptions these 
are creditably executed, and, together with a copious and well 
arranged index, considerably enhance the value of the work. 
From the examination which we have made of “ The 
Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery ” we have 
no hesitation in giving it our unqualified approval, and in 
regarding it as a most important addition to our professional 
literature. Eminently sound in its principles, the work 
will be found by the comparative pathologist both interest¬ 
ing, instructive, and suggestive; while by the student, as 
well as veterinary practitioner, it will be highly valued as a 
text-book, and as a work of reference. 
