BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
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better, quicker and more surgical, the insertion of a horseshoe 
nail at one or two points to immobilize the edges of the crack, the 
higher nail being placed about an inch and a half from the coro¬ 
nary band, then deep cauterization of the wall above the nails, re¬ 
moval of the horn for a distance of one inch on each side of the 
crack, and a subsequent burning across the crack at the lowest 
point of the thinned wall entirely through the horn to the 
lamina, thus entirely destroying the continuity of the fibres, 
and making reopening impossible. In a week remove the rem¬ 
nant of the crack from the coronary band to the point of deep 
cauterization. By this method the writer seldom fails to effect 
a cure, and the horse can resume work in from three to four 
weeks.—R. R. B.] 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Surgical Operations. By Dr. W. Pfeiffer, of the University of Giessen. Second Edi¬ 
tion. Richard Schoetz, Berlin. Luisenstrasse, 36. 
I remember the time, when I was a student, the practical op¬ 
erative classes were peculiarly carried out, at least at the school 
where I was. The students were almost left to themselves, and 
had for guides in their manipulations only their notes. Then 
works on operative surgery were not as plentiful as at present. 
The professors who had charge of the classes had too much to 
do to show every one of us the proper way to work, or to cor¬ 
rect imperfect manipulations. How different to-day. Only a 
few years ago (in 1895) Prof. Cadiot published his “ Manual of 
Exercises in Surgery,” inaugurating a new road for the benefit 
of the practical education of his students ; this little work was 
soon translated and published in America. In 1897 P r °f- Pfeif¬ 
fer, of the University of Giessen, issued another, which Prof. 
Williams translated and published a short time ago, with the 
addition of the description of a few typical American operations. 
All of those we have already noticed in the Review at their 
proper time. 
To-day we have received the second edition of the little 
book of Prof. Pfeiffer. In it we find added a few operations 
which had not been considered in the previous issue—castration 
and some special neurotomies. It is, as was its predecessors, 
well illustrated, and to all appearances is likely to obtain great 
success among German practitioners, principally students. 
With all the facilities that are now at hand, with the nuiner- 
