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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Microhian Diseases of Animals ^Les Maladies Microbiennes des Animaux.) 
By Profs. Nocard and I^eclainche. Second Edition. 1898. Published by Masson & 
Co , P'aubourg St. Germain, Paris. 
“ The first edition of this book, exhausted in eighteen months, 
has been so kindly received, that a long preface is not required.” 
These first lines of the introduction from the authors show with 
perfect right how they feel sure of their success ; success which, 
in fact, is so well deserved. The second edition of the work is 
superiorly good. Strengthening as it does the excellent qualities 
of the first, it is called to be among the books of all scientists. It 
no doubt will find its place also among the ordinary practitioners 
and the ever-studying veterinarians. The text is concise, the 
reading clear and easy, and the contents will keep the interest 
of the reader constantly awake through the 956 pages that the 
work contains in its twenty-nine chapters. 
It is an almost entirely new work that Profs. Nocard and 
Teclainche present to the public. But the fecundity of the 
methods due to the genius of Pasteur, is such that most of the 
subjects treated in the first edition have been modified or trans¬ 
formed on account of the progress made. And, besides, impor¬ 
tant additions have been made. Among the new chapters must 
be mentioned : Teta7ius^ gangrenous septicceinia^ hcEniorrhagic 
septiccemias of horses^ bovines, sheep aiid goats^ coli-bacillar in¬ 
fections^ epizootic abortioii^ contagions agalaxia^ aviary difh- 
theria^ cerebrospinal nie^iingitis. All those questions have been 
brought down to the point of view of veterinarians ; no doubt a 
process in fsvor of the practical instruction of the book. 
For all veterinarians that read French “ Microbian Diseases” 
is a work of immense value. The house which publishes it, 
Masson & Co., present it to the public in their usual fine style 
of printing, etc. It is to be hoped that a translation will enable 
English readers to benefit by all its valuable information at an 
early date. 
The first edition has met with success ; we have no doubt 
that the second will receive even greater appreciation at the 
hands of the scientist, the sanitarian and the busy practitioner. 
In a recent edition of the New York Herald a veterinary 
infirmary advertises that it receives sick dogs for treatment, and 
closes the announcement by the significant paragraph that it 
owns and operates a canine cemetery. 
