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has kept up his experiments. In a great public experiment 
made at Buenos Ayres, he has vaccinated bovines with complete 
success, not only against experimental inoculation of the 
disease, but also against the natural infection by ticks. 
It is the first time vaccination has been used against a disease 
due to hematozoars. This is an important discovery, which 
may conduct to a similar application against paludism of man. 
Prof. Bignieres has done well for science and his country 
can be proud of him. A. E. 
Surgical Operations. By W. Pfeiffer, of the Berlin Veterinary High School, and 
W. L. Williams, of the New York State Veterinary College. W. R. Jenkins, i\ew 
York ; Balliere, Tindall & Cox, London. 
One of the neatest and most useful books that has been con¬ 
tributed to English veterinary literature during recent years has 
just appeared under the above title. This little book is from 
the pen of Dr. W. E. Williams, Professor of Surgery in the New 
York State Veterinary College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
It is in part translated from a similar work by Dr. W. Pfeiffer, 
Assistant in the Surgical Clinic of the Veterinary High School, 
Berlin. A considerable portion of the material is original. 
Two important new operations are described by the originators. 
In some respects the old teaching of operative surgery has 
been open to criticism. One criticism would be the lack of 
actual performance of operations by the student. This little 
book, taken as a text-book and guide for actual work, ought to 
assist in removing the class room difficulty, and also assist the 
practitioner in making up what he lost by having been born 
several years too soon. Dr. Williams has omitted some por¬ 
tions of the original, and has added some material that belongs 
distinctly to recent American surgery. For instance : McKil- 
lip’s staphylotomy ; Merillat’s arytenoideraphy, and Williams’ 
operations for trifacial neurectomy, extraction of molars, repul¬ 
sion of molars, caudal myectomy, and vaginal ovariectomy.* • 
The operations described in the book have been divided into 
four groups : Operations on the head ; operations on the neck ; 
operations on the trunk and genital organs ; and operations on 
the extremities. There is no part of the subject matter that is 
not of the utmost importance ; nor could complicated operations 
be more simply and accurately described. But one method is 
given for each operation, and confusion is thus avoided. Each 
method has been selected by a master, and so the inexperienced 
are safe in operating under this guidance. 
* This operation is given in full in the “ Department of Surgery ” in this issue. 
