BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
519 
Some things have been omitted that we might wish had 
been included, but there is nothing that we might wish had 
been omitted. There are many who can operate, but few who 
can describe their operations so as to give the description any 
teaching value. The writers of this little book have demon¬ 
strated that they can do both. There are few operations with 
which the recent graduate has more trouble in actual practice 
than the extraction of molars; and there is probably no oper¬ 
ation so poorly, so unsurgically performed in routine practice 
as that of molar repulsion. The operation as described by 
Williams becomes surgical and effective. 
An error in translation has resulted in a transposition of 
levers of the first and second classes as applied to tooth extract¬ 
ing forceps. The illustrations may be justly criticised in some 
cases. For instance: Fig. 31, illustrating digital neurectomy, 
shows the incision too far forward. Fig. 28, illustrating the 
stringhalt operation, suggests an incision that appears rather 
high. If a student should read the text carelessly and guide 
his incision by the illustration, he might go through the 
annular ligament and get into the lateral extensor bursa, which 
would not be good surgery, although not necessarily serious in 
result. 
Figs. 1 and 2, illustrating extraction of molars, are very 
instructive and satisfactory. Fig. 4, showing the sites of the 
various trephining operations, is satisfactory in that it shows 
where to trephine ; but it can hardly be commended as being 
artistic. The same criticism may be made of Fig. 8, illustrat¬ 
ing trifacial neurectomy. Taken all in all, the illustrations are 
to be praised because they do illustrate, and some of them are 
artistic. 
This little work has been needed for some time, and the 
American veterinary profession is to be congratulated that so 
able an operator and teacher as Dr. Williams should have un¬ 
dertaken it. 
My impression after going through this little book quite 
thoroughly can be expressed fairly well by saying : “ That is 
business ; that is surgical surgery. We need not be ashamed to 
invite our surgical M. D. brethren to witness a clinic of that 
kind.” M. H. R. 
Catalogue of Agricultural and Veterinary Instruments. H. Hauptner, Ber¬ 
lin, N. W. 
This new catalogue deserves more than an ordinary mention. 
