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strictures do not quickly tend to the reform of many abuses^ 
they will at least open the eyes of the public to their exist¬ 
ence. Mr. Fleming's views on the subject of shoeing are too 
well known to the readers of the Veterinarian to render it 
necessary to quote from the latter part of his work. 
We welcome ‘ Horseshoes and Horseshoeing ^ as a valuable 
contribution to veterinary literature. 
A Pharmacopoeia, including the Outlines of Materia Medica 
and Therapeutics, for the use of Practitioners and Students 
of Veterinary Medicine. By Bi chard V. Tuson, F.C.S., 
Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica at the Boyal 
Veterinary College; formerly Lecturer on Chemistry at 
the Charing Cross Hospital. 1869. Churchill. 
It is^ for obvious reasons^ impossible for us to oflPer in this 
journal any general opinion on the merits of this new con¬ 
tribution to veterinary science. Our readers will readily 
understand that any praise of it would be equally ungraceful 
in us and distasteful to Professor Tuson. But the production 
of a new ^Veterinary Pharmacopoeia/ founded on the princi¬ 
ples of modern science, and arranged in accordance with the 
recent ^British Pharmacopoeia/ is an event too important to 
veterinary practitioners to be allowed to pass unnoticed in 
these pages, and we think it our duty to describe, as shortly 
as possible, the chief characters of the book. The arrange¬ 
ment adopted is succinctly explained in the following quota¬ 
tion from the preface. It is carefully modelled upon that of 
the ^ British Pharmacopoeia,'’ though the scope of the work is 
considerably wider. 
The agents are arranged in alphabetical order, according 
to the plan adopted in the British Pharmacopoeia,^ and are 
treated of under the following heads : 
1. Latin Pharmaceutic Name. 
2. English Pharmaceutic Name. 
3. Synonyms. 
4. Composition. 
5. Mode of Preparation. 
6. Character and Tests. 
7. Action and Uses. 
8. Hoses. 
9. Modes of Application. 
10. Incompatibles. 
11. Antidotes. 
12. Preparations.^^ 
