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In this first volume the contents are divided into two parts. 
In the first are treated all that relates i o.drugs and their medical 
actions, mode of administration, absorption and elimination. 
In the second, we find the drugs proper and their indications. 
Prof. Guinard reviews the drugs which act directly on the 
causes of diseases, by protecting the organism against the 
action of microbes, or removing the parasites that infest it. 
These are the antseptics and antiparasitics. The new sero- 
therapeutic methods are presented with much care. The 
author then considers the drugs which act as modifying agents 
of organs and of their functions : he studies those of the nervous 
system, and completes his work by a long review of the anaes¬ 
thetics. 
It will prove most useful to the practitioner. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
PROGRESS OF VETERINARY ARMY LEGISLATION. 
Mayaguiz, Porto Rico, January lo, 1899. 
Edito 7 '‘s A 7 nerican Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :—This subject may be “ as tedious as a twice- 
told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;” nevertheless, it 
may be of some consolation to those who have worked and laid 
awake nights doing the drudgery and devising means and 
schemes for the emancipation of “ His Nibs in the Army,” to 
know they have been given credit for their efforts, and, although 
no other reward may be forthcoming, still, the consciousness of 
a hard up-hill pull almost successfully accomplished will be a 
rainbow in their souls. 
Ten years ago the undersigned entered the Fifth Cavalry 
with the intention of devoting his energy to the dragging of the 
army veterinary service out of the bottomless post hole where 
it had been peacefully reclining from time immemorial, but it 
was soon discovered that the “ Customs of the Service ” were as 
firmly fixed and established as the H and O in a molecule of 
water, and that to do anything worth mentioning the whole 
system would have to be changed and probably reorganized. 
Soon after entering the service we became cognizant of the fact 
that in the person of Dr. J. M. Treacy, of the Eighth Cavalry, 
the service had one of the most energetic, untiring, irrepressible 
and determined workers for the advancement of the army veter¬ 
inary service, and I do not hesitate to say here that any benefits 
that have accrued or any progress made toward bettering the 
