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of the existence of this disease in American swine is exciting 
so large a degree of interest in Europe. Hog cholera, tubercu¬ 
losis, accompanied with an excellent article on infection and bac¬ 
teria, anthrax, Texas fever, rabies and glanders, complete the 
first part. It occurs to us that in treating of the various dis¬ 
eases, it is to be regretted that Mr. Billings has not entered a little 
more fully into the minutiae of the new discoveries recently 
achieved by European veterinarians in some of these affections. 
But the work was, of course, not designed to be a book on prac¬ 
tice, nor on sanitary medicine, and probably what is said touch¬ 
ing these matters will be considered sufficient to give weight to 
the main object in view. This is gradually brought forward in 
Part Second, and well developed in the concluding division. 
Pet why do we find no mention of certain other affections, 
such as pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa, eczema contagiosa, and 
others ? Might they not have proved as important and in¬ 
teresting in the view of those to whom the book is, probably, 
principally directed, viz.: members of Congress, of the various 
departments, or of the General and various State Governments ? 
In Part Second the reader is treated to a history of veterinary 
medicine, not in this country, but in Europe. We earnestly re¬ 
commend this portion of the work to the reader’s attention. It 
is the result of careful compilation and research, and is probably 
one of the best we have ever seen. Taking up the subject from 
the most remote periods of antiquity, the author brings us down 
by degrees to the day of the foundation of veterinary schools in 
Europe, dwelling principally on the schools of Germany and the 
Veterinary Institute of Prussia, which seems to be exhibited to 
us as the typical institution of the world. Nothing less could be 
expected than this expression of the love and admiration of an 
alumnus for his alma mater. 
This part is concluded by the publication of the Prussian 
Laws for the Suppression of Contagious Animal Diseases, and if 
we did not know our friend Billings to be a thorough American 
at heart, as he truly is, we should certainly credit him with a Ger¬ 
man nativity. 
In Part Three the author reaches the main object of his ex- 
