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REVIEW. 
apparent in Texas fever, and were certainly not usual in 
splenic fever, so that there is at least room for questioning 
with which of the diseases the cattle at Liverpool were 
affected. 
Review. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid tuvpe, quid utile, quid non.— IIor. 
PROFESSOR COBBOLD’S WORK ON PARASITES. 
The Live Stock Journal for the 16th of July last presents 
its readers with the following review of Professor CobbokRs 
recent volume ; and as certain portions of the critique seem 
to us to require an answer, we have added some remarks 
contributed by the author : 
“ This is an exceedingly uncomfortable book to take up and 
study, but it is one of immense importance, and on its 
special ground is, we should not hesitate to say, the most 
thorough and exhaustive of its kind. Dr. Cobbold pub¬ 
lished an elementary work many years ago on the Entozoa, 
but that has long been out of print; and the present volume, 
though built upon the lines of the earlier work, is by no 
means a simple reproduction of it. It is, in fact, an 
ori ginal treatise of some considerable extent, with which 
is incorporated fragmentary portions of the older work, 
so far as they harmonise with the wider design of the new 
book. 
“ The author tells us his work is not professional— f that 
is to say, it does not concern itself with the therapeutics or 
the curative treatment of parasitic affections. 5 It is popu¬ 
lar in its treatment, and might with advantage have been 
a little more so in its phraseology. It is difficult to turn 
away from a terse and exact scientific terminology, espe¬ 
cially when to us it has become familiar and easy; but 
there are some subjects—and this is one of them—where 
everything that has to be said could be put into simplest 
Saxon, or good English at any rate, and so be understood 
by all men. We are not finding fault with Dr. Cobbold ; 
he sins less than most writers who claim to appeal to the 
general reader often do ; but we put it to the Doctor whether 
‘worms 5 is not more to the common mind than ‘helminth¬ 
ology 5 will ever convey. 
