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REVIEWS AND NOTICES. 
First Annual Report of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission and 
State Veterinarian of the State of Kansas. 
This pamphlet presents to the readers a long statement 
relating to the condition of the live stock of that State. Fol¬ 
lowing the report of the State Commission, which covers the 
first ten pages of the pamphlet, the balance of the volume is 
occupied by the report of State Veterinarian Dr. Holcombe. 
Naturally the first disease which the reader would expect to find 
is the outbreak of last March, regarding which so many different 
veterinary opinions were given. It is mentioned as the Neosho 
Valley Disease. Everybody remembers the sensation produced 
by the news that foot and mouth disease had appeared in Kansas, 
and everyone is familiar with the opinions expressed, not only by 
private practitioners, but by official veterinarians in this country 
and in Canada. In his report, Dr. Holcombe presents what seems 
to be a different state of affairs than would be expected from the 
reports already published, and, after some pretty hard remarks, 
concludes nearly in the same manner as he did at first, making 
only the exception “ that the only reason he had for believing 
that it was not continental foot and mouth disease, is the fact 
that sheep and pigs would not take it.” The confirmation of the 
disease by Prof. McEachran is commented upon by Dr. Hol¬ 
combe as strengthening an opinion which he yet thinks was 
correct. 
Glanders and farcy, Texas fever, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, 
hog cholera, anthrax, tuberculosis, contagious ophthalmia in cattle 
and hydrophobia are the various contagious diseases which are 
also mentioned in the report. 
The Anatomy of the Horse. —A dissection guide. By J. Mo. 
Fadyeau, M.B., C.M., B.S., Lecturer on Anatomy at the Royal 
(Dick’s) Veterinary College, Edinburg. 
A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Equine Medicine. By 
J. B. Cresswell and Albert Cresswell. 
These last two books were received too late for review, but 
will be considered in our March number. W. R. Jenkins, the 
veterinary bookseller of New York, has the publication of both 
in the United States. 
