CORRESPONDENCE 
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DISEASES OF LIVE STOCK. 
By L. V. Tellor, M.D. 
This is the title of a work written by Dr. Tellor and published 
by Dr. D. G. Brinton, 115 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia. 
To write a book on the diseases of live stock, embracing as 
this work does 460 pages, is a pretty difficult task. And when we 
tind that it contains anatomy, physiology, hygiene, therapeutics 
surgery and pathology of the horse, cattle, sheep and swine, to 
many it will be looked upon as an impossibility. We have had so 
many of those works, so-called popular books, that this last is 
likely to be classified by many like its predecessors. Popular 
works we do object to, especially in veterinary medicine. They 
are, generally speaking, of little use. And in this country, where 
veterinary science is so much behind the age, we would not con¬ 
sider them otherwise than as the means of pushing on or elevating 
quackery, rather than to help veterinary medicine and agriculture. 
Still, the work of Dr. Tellor, though a popular work, we have 
found far better than any which has been written before it, and 
if the doctor had only left out some of the notices he obtained 
from some of the works he has consulted, it would have been none 
the worse for it. 
To the Editor of the American Veterinary Review: 
Sir— Seeing that you have allowed four months to pass with¬ 
out attempting to contradict my official report, in which I state a 
fact as I found it and can amply verify, I was surprised and hu¬ 
miliated to read your remarks at page 170 of the July number of 
the Review. 
1 will not, however, resort to the same disreputable plan of re¬ 
plying “ you’re another.” I merely repeat that all I said and more 
is true. 
