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Many other points of originality might be pointed out, 
and we are bound to remark that the innovations appear to 
be all on the side of practical convenience. The appendix 
contains tables of the new and old atomic weights, of the 
weights and measures of the British Pharmacopoeia, and of 
the French metrical system, and a careful comparison of the 
two. 
In addition to a very full ordinary index, the work contains 
a carefully prepared Index to Veterinary Medicines, ar¬ 
ranged according to their Actions and Uses.^'’ In this index 
the meaning and derivation of the terms employed are given 
at the head of each list of drugs. The following example 
will best illustrate the mode of arrangement: 
Emetics {e/LUTiKa, emetica, from ejuLiw, I vomit),—agents 
which cause vomition. 
Antimonium Tartaratum. 
Cupri Sulphas. 
Ipecacuanha. 
Zinci Acetas. 
Sulphas.'’^ 
It is scarcely necessary to add in conclusion that the book 
is well got up and very clearly and accurately printed. To 
say that it is published by Messrs. Churchill is, in fact, 
almost equivalent to saying so much for it. 
T/ie Animal World: a Monthly Advocate of Humanity. 
It is hardly a satisfactory reflection for humanity that 
there should be a necessity for any special advocacy of the 
claims of the lower animals to humane treatment. When 
men cease to be humane they lose their right to be called 
human, and the words in which Punch a few weeks ago made 
the stricken ox plead to his manly (?) assailant—Am I not 
a brute and a brother”—become literally accurate in their 
expression. 
If there ever was a need to teach men reverence and com¬ 
passion, it exists now, and especially do we agree with the 
Animal World” in believing that these essential qualities 
of humanity should be, by precept and example, indoctrinated 
in our youth, in whom the lack of them is not only mis¬ 
chievous, but even deadly. 
The second number of the new publication is before us, 
and we have been much interested in the perusal of its 
