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veterinary literature, and has again proved his claim to rank 
among its most valuable contributors. .Not satisfied with the 
long list of books and pamphlets and scientific articles which he 
has already produced, he comes to-day and presents to the vet¬ 
erinary profession at large, to practitioners as well as to students, 
the first and only work on operative surgery which has been pub¬ 
lished in the English language. 
The issue of the book has been promised for some time, but 
if our patience has been put somewhat on trial by long waiting 
for its appearance, none of those who shall at length become its 
readers will hesitate to own that they have been amply rewarded 
at last for the postponement of their expectations. 
The first part, on operative surgery, forms a neat collection 
of 266 pages, handsomely illustrated with 295 wood cuts, equal, 
and in many instances superior, in execution to any of similar 
nature we have seen. 
After a few introductory pages, devoted to generalities, we 
encounter sundry chapters comprehending a variety of subjects, 
which may perhaps be properly denominated miscellane¬ 
ous, such as the various means of restraint; the use of ansetliet- 
ics; then, simple operations of minor surgery, covering the dif¬ 
ferent modes of the division and reunion of tissues. Then, passing 
to the second part, we are treated with operations on bony struc¬ 
tures, fractures and dislocations; the removal of tumors, cauteri¬ 
zation, setons, various modes of injection; operations on blood 
vessels, on muscles, on bones, and, in fact, upon all the organs of 
the function of locomotion ; operations on the nerves, amputa¬ 
tions, extraction of foreign bodies from wounds, etc., etc. 
Operative Veterinary Surgery supplies a great and pressing 
need in veterinary literature. It is written in the peculiarly 
clear and intelligible style of the author, and is the work of a 
man who has been for many years engaged in this peculiar field. 
It is a book which no veterinarian or veterinary student, nor 
even the veterinary teacher, can dispense with, whether as a 
means of original education, or of reference for the proficient. 
The English edition, which is published unbound, has been 
much improved by the strong and neat binding with which the 
American publisher, Mr. Jenkins, has clothed it. 
