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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
ing to preserve it very carefully and return it unsoiled, we are 
enabled to present this to our readers—only a few of whom will 
be able to remember the subject as he appears in this likeness. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The Dise\ses of Poultry. By D. E. Salmon, D.V.M., Chief of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. Washington, D. C.: George E. Howard & Co. 
Comparative medicine is already under many compliments 
to the studious and scholarly head of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, and it is again made his debtor by this latest contribu¬ 
tion to a subject to which he has given a great deal of thought, 
and to which the vast majority of veterinarians have given so 
little. So light has been the literature upon the subject of the 
diseases of poultry in the English language that the small vol¬ 
ume under consideration is the first that has been written, and 
foi this leason it becomes of greater value as occupying exclu¬ 
sively this field. In his introduction the author gives some 
idea of the immense commercial importance of birds in this 
country by furnishing from the last census the statement that 
there were in 1890, 258,871,125 chickens or dung-hill fowls and 
26,738,315 other domesticated fowls, while the earnings of 
American poultry have been estimated from $200,000,000 to 
$ 35 0 > 000 ) 000 ' I 11 this chapter are also considered health and 
disease, the organs and apparatus and their functions, common 
causes of disease, hygienic requirements, disinfection, objects of 
medical treatment, etc. Chapter II deals with diseases of' the 
respiratory organs ; chapter III and IV, those of the digestive 
apparatus ; V, diseases of the peritoneum, liver and spleen ; 
VI, diseases of the organs of urination and reproduction ; VII, 
the brain ; VIII, heart and blood vessels ; IX, parasites and dis¬ 
eases of the skin ; X, feet and legs; XI, infectious diseases; 
XII, injurious habits or vices. The book is profusely illus¬ 
trated, well printed on good paper, handsomely and substan¬ 
tially bound in cloth or paper, and sells for the nominal sum of 
50 cents for the paper binding and $1 for cloth binding. 
Proceedings of the American \ rterinary Medical Association ; Session of 
h 99* Edited ky the Publication Committee, W. L. Williams, Chairman, Ithaca, 
N. \ . Published by the Association. 
1 romptly on time came the report of the u Proceedings’’ of 
the New A 01k meeting, bound in cloth, beautifully printed on 
good paper, well arranged, well edited, and containing over 300 
