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author.” Later on, in a lengthy notice of Dr. CobbokFs 
work, the reviewer says (January 3rd, p. 16): “ On lay¬ 
ing it down, after perusal, the mind is oppressed with a 
sense of the prodigious and long-continued labour which 
must have been devoted to reducing the information it con¬ 
tains to the compendious form in which it is now given to 
the world. The work is, nevertheless, in the best sense, 
readable. It affects no literary artifice, but it fixes the 
reader by the complete mastery of the subject displayed by 
the author, and by the ever strange and increasing interest 
of its several details.” Further on it is observed that, by 
means of this book, the author has put “ vastly increased 
power into the hands of the sanitarian, human and veterinary, 
for accomplishing his functions.” 
The Medical Times and Gazette (September 6th, 1879) 
gives so brief a notice of the work that we may fairly 
quote it nearly as it stands, thus :—“ Though the author 
has written much on this subject, the present may be looked 
upon as an entirely new treatise. And, in our view, it well 
entitles him to the title of the English Kiiehenmeister. In¬ 
teresting in many ways, repulsive in others, the subject has 
never in this country been more ardently studied than by 
Spencer Cobbold, who well deserves the eminence these 
special studies have given him. The work is an Ency¬ 
clopaedia.” 
The Dublin Journal of Medical Science for August, 
1879, which devotes no less than six pages to its review of 
the book, says: “ One cannot help admiring the untiring 
zeal I)r. Cobbold has displayed, both in original investiga¬ 
tion, experimentation, and in the collection of references to 
the literature of the subject on which he writes” (p. 130); 
subsequently remarking that “ every page bears witness to 
the energy, originality, and learning of its author.” 
Outside the purely medical world a leading scientific 
journal has lent its powerful voice in support of the 
subject of helminthology. We allude to the periodical 
Nature , published by Macmillan and Co. Those only who 
have perused the preface of Dr Cobbold's work can realise 
the sentiments of an author who perfectly well knows in 
what prejudiced lights the subject of helminthology is re¬ 
garded by most persons, professional or otherwise. We cannot 
quote the long concluding paragraph (introducing Mr. 
Faraday^s name) of the preface itself. It is a strongly- 
worded passage, but its sentences are not one whit too 
strong, as the reviewer of Nature seems to agree when he 
says of them: t( None but an honest and true worker will 
