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irritating cause, lias now become thoroughly known and is 
still becoming familiar to us as the developing and growing mi¬ 
crobe, as it presents itself under its various forms of micrococcus 
or bacillus, until it brings us down to the true nature of the con¬ 
tagiosity of tuberculosis, and shows the modes by which certain 
metastatic abscesses and other visceral lesions are the uniform and 
legitimate product of specific elements. The work is completed 
by an appendix introducing some interesting remarks upon the 
report of Messrs. Lydtin, Fleming and Yan Hersten upon the 
same subject, with suggestions in reference to the treatment and 
prophylaxy of this disease. 
Mr. Bouley is already too well known in the profession, and 
his voluminous writings justly appreciated by all French readers, 
medical as well as veterinary, both students and practitioners, to 
need further remark at our hands. In these lectures the learned 
gentleman has once more demonstrated to the world of savants 
the eminent justness of his claims to the distinguished honor re- 
cently conferred upon him in calling him to the Presidency of the 
Academie des Sciences of Paris. 
DISEASES OF THE EAR. 
By Prof. O. D. Pomeroy, M.D. 
Even in this our day of constantly increasing English veter¬ 
inary literature, the veterinary specialist, while finding pleasure 
and instruction in the study of the literature exclusively adapted 
to his own use, is often at a loss to know 7 where to look for the 
information he desires, and is compelled by the absence of special 
treatises on various branches of veterinary medicine and surgery 
to fall back on the w 7 orks of specialists in human medicine. 
Among these the above-named work will be found an eligible one 
for the use of the veterinarian. And while it is true that diseases 
of the ear are but seldom encountered in veterinary practice, he 
may still find among its contents a large amount of information 
of which he may find occasion to avail himself in the treatment of 
the lower classes of animals. We strongly recommend the w T ork 
to those of our friends whose canine practice may bring before 
them patients suffering with diseases of the ear. 
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