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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
ELEMENTS OF CHEMICAL AND MICROSCOPICAL ANALYSIS IN THE 
DIAGNOSIS OF THE DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
This little work, which covers 266 pages, the fruit of the pens 
of Dr. O. Siedamgrotzky and V. Hofmeister, has been translated 
into French by Prof. J. M. Wehenkel, of the Belgium School, 
and Mr. C. Siegen, Veterinary Surgeon at Luxembourg. 
If it was ever proper to say of a book that it filled a much- 
felt want, this is one of the best occasions for the remark, and 
for this reason the two translators deserve much credit for having 
made the work accessible to those who are unacquainted with 
German but who understand French. We hope that some Eng¬ 
lish writer may be found who will give our English-speaking 
people an opportunity to appreciate the value of the work. 
Following the introductory remarks of the translator and of 
the authors, the book opens by treating of sundry generalities in 
the use of the microscope, and with the alterations which may be 
commonly met with, caused by the presence of foreign bodies in 
microscopical preparations. The third part comprises a few short 
but appropriate generalities upon chemical analysis. 
The following seven chapters are devoted to the physiological 
and pathological aspects presented by the different secretions, in¬ 
cluding the blood, milk, mucus, urine, foeces, pus, and the micro¬ 
scopical examination of the skin. 
The work concludes with a few pages on food, water, meats 
and milk. 
The chapter on urine is very carefully written, and in the seven¬ 
ty-six pages it occupies, forms an excellent treatise upon this im¬ 
portant secretion, so commonly overlooked by veterinarians in 
making their diagnosis of disease. 
Some fifty wood engravings furnish illustrations of the ele¬ 
ments of chemical and micrographical analyses, with which every 
veterinarian ought to be familiar. 
