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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AME RCA. 
shows us to be doing the best educational work of any in 
the United States of America. It is dedicated to Mr. George 
Fleming, and is the first work of importance on'Anatomy of 
the Horse produced in America, being preceded only by the 
obsolete work of Dadd. The Vade Mecum is very elemen¬ 
tary, though prepared for “ the use of advanced students and 
veterinary surgeons.’ 5 It is arranged in chapters, each on a 
region of which the various component structures are re¬ 
viewed seriatim; it is not quite so free from errors as we 
should expect so elementary a work to be, while the imperfec¬ 
tions necessary to a condensed account of anatomical struc¬ 
ture are sometimes glaring. We must attribute these defects 
mainly to the demand for the work necessitating hasty pre¬ 
paration, and hope a second edition may soon afford scope 
for correction. We fully feel that the author’s pupils owe 
him a debt of gratitude for this work, the preparation of 
w'hich must have trespassed much on his valuable time. In 
January (1877) number of the American Veterinary Review 
the author gave a list of American veterinary works, as 
follows: 
Carver’s work, 1818; Budd’s work, 1861 ; Dadd’s works, 
1866 (‘Anatomy,’ ‘ Veterinary Journal,’ and ‘ Modern Horse 
Doctor’); works by Jennings and McClure ; W. C. Holme, 
‘American Farrier,’ 1852; Herbert, ‘Hints to Breeders, 
1859; translation of Guenon, ‘ Milch Cows/ by Trisk, 1868 ; 
‘ American Farmer’s Horse/ by R. Stewart, M.D., V.S., 1866; 
‘ Percheron Horse / by C. Du Hays, 1868 ; ‘ American 
Cattle/ by L. F. Allen, 1868;‘Appendix to Stonehenge/ by 
A. Large, M.D., M.R.C.V.S., 1869; J. Harris on the £ Pig,’ 
1870; J. A. Reason on the ‘ Hog/ 1870; Hanover on the 
‘Law of Horses/ 1872 (2nd ed., 1875); Bouley’s ‘Hydro¬ 
phobia/ translated by A. Liautard, 1874; J. Law, ‘ Farmer’s 
Veterinary Adviser/ 1876. Since that time Dr. Tellor 
brought out a popular work on ‘Diseases of Live Stock.’ 
This list, even allowing for omissions, seems meagre 
enough until we come to consider the influences acting °on 
the progress of the American veterinary literature. Profes¬ 
sional writers need a reading professional public, such as 
America until recently has not afforded, though now we 
hope she is in a fair way to encourage much energy in this 
direction. Again, when veterinary science was introduced 
into English' speaking America, she had at her disposal such 
works as the professional labours of British writers had pro¬ 
duced. We see the impress of this still in the list of text¬ 
books recommended at the schools, the works of Williams 
Fleming, and Dun having a well merited prominence! 
