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ner of writing prescriptions in a proper manner, analyzing 
their construction from the invocatory L to the signature, giv¬ 
ing enough of medical Latin to enable practitioners to write 
thoroughly correct and grammatical prescriptions. , As a ref¬ 
erence work a vast amount of material of the kind veterinar¬ 
ians want to know about fill subsequent pages, and include the 
principles of combining drugs, examples of dangerous and erro¬ 
neous combinations, a chapter on solution, with tables of solu¬ 
bility of the chief veterinary drugs. Weights and measures 
form a most complete chapter, and include every phase of the 
subject, while officinal preparations are generously treated of 
in the next section. Posology is discussed with reference to 
the various channels by which the medicines are conducted 
into the system, and the tables of dosage are both complete and 
comprehensive. Fifty pages are devoted to a vocabulary, from 
which the student can abstract a good general definition of all 
Latin and medical phrases usually employed. An appendix of 
favorite prescriptions of well-known practitioners completes the 
volume, and a reference to these brings to the reader many 
happy combinations that experience has taught the author are 
valuable in particular conditions. 
The author is to be congratulated upon having produced 
from what seemed & simple subject a work which we venture 
to say will be worn out faster by constant handling than any 
other book in the veterinarian’s library. 
Outline of the Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds for Veterinarians. By H. 
Frick, County Veterinarian of Hettstedt, Germany, Translated by Alexander Eger, 
with annotations by A. H. Baker, V. S. (Chicago Veterinary College), and L. A. 
Merillat, V. S. (McKillip Veterinary College). Chicago : Alexander Eger, pub¬ 
lisher, 1900. 
Following closely upon Dr. Peters’ translation of Fischoeder’s 
“ Meat Inspection,” Mr. Eger gives the veterinarian another 
valuable little volume upon a subject that is just now receiving 
a great deal of attention at our hands. For many years anti- 
sepsy was regarded by us as a most excellent and scientific dis¬ 
covery—for the practitioner of human medicines, but it was un¬ 
fortunate that its general adoption was impracticable and a 
farce in veterinary medicine. It was thought that wound treat¬ 
ment in the domestic animals was so radically different from 
the same subject in our sister profession that antisepsy could 
only be aimed at, and that surgery would have to continue to 
be without its powerful effects. Within the last year veterinary 
sentiment has taken a radical change, and our literature is 
teeming with extemporaneous articles upon the subject. For 
