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Inis been looked for for a long time, and one which will be read 
with pleasure by all interested., 
Any veterinarian who will engage in the difficult task of en¬ 
riching English veterinary literature will deserve credit for his 
endeavors, especially in our days, when so few writers are to be 
found, and Prof. Hill will allow us to express to him our sincere 
compliments for his new work. Handsomely printed, illustrated 
by 153 wood-cuts and 19 colored plates, u Bovine Medicine and 
Surgery ” forms a large octavo volume of over 650 pages, the 
contents being divided into twenty-six chapters. The first ten 
chapters are essentially devoted to internal pathology of respira¬ 
tory, circulatory, digestive, urinary and genital apparatus. They 
are followed by seven chapters upon the anatomy and physiology 
of the generative organs of the cow, parturition, diseases of foetus, 
monstrosities, diseases of the young animal, and those connected 
with parturition. The nervous system and the various senses 
occupy the four chapters following. Internal parasites and blood 
diseases are then described. The balance of the work contains a 
chapter upon surgery, another upon poisons and their antidotes; 
the last treats of diseased meat and milk. 
As a whole, u Bovine Medicine and Surgery ” will prove to 
every reader a good work, and one which every one will have in 
his library; and though the author remarks in the preface his 
object has not been to make every man his own doctor, there is 
no doubt that many non-professionals will do more than diagnose 
diseases by a careful perusal of the book. We regret that Prof. 
Hill has not been more generous in giving the public some of the 
new theories and facts, which are to-day pretty well admitted by 
veterinarians, upon two important diseases of cattle, viz. : anthrax 
and phthisis pulmonalis. It is true that the readers of English 
veterinary journals may have, through them, learned of the dis¬ 
coveries of Pasteur, Toussaint, Koch and others; still, we believe 
in a work like this, notice of those discoveries would not have 
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been out of place.” It is a vacuum in this excellent work which 
we are sorry to notice. 
The work is well written, enlarged in many instances with 
unnecessary descriptions, though in others perhaps a little too 
