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Veterinary Toxicology
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word puzzles which Dr Liautard has created III his attempts to render the French of the original work into English. It may be at once explained that the third chapter deals not with diseases special to all tissues, but with diseases affecting the various tissues, such as skin, muscles, tendons, etc. The work has many defects, some apparently belonging to the original, while others are obviously to be laid to the charge of the translator. Among the former one notices a tendency to wholly unnecessary amplification and explanation which is truly irritating. Take, for example, the following, which occurs on the very first page: "Under the influence of the pain produced by the instrument no animal will remain quiet. It will resist and try to defend itself, so that the surgeon who wishes to act with safety must take precautions against injury. The horse with his feet or teeth, the steer with his horns or legs, the dog and the pig with their teeth, the cat with its claws and canines may inflict dangerous wounds." This might be quite proper in a book for the instruction of little children, but it is surely out of place in a veterinary text-book. Translator's mishaps occur on almost every page, and every here and there one encounters a word which belongs to no language, living or dead. Such are, sphacel, erobica, bacterians, epiphysar, diaphysar, zooglocia. Text-Book of ComparatiYe General Pathology for Practitioners and Students of Veterinary Medicine. By Professor Dr Th. Kitt of Munich. Authorised Translation by Dr William W. Cad bury, Assistant Demonstrator of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. Edited with Notes and Additional Illustrations by Dr Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1906. Price 25/- net. WE had occasion to speak favourably of the German original of this work when it appeared in 1904, and the present translation will prove welcome to English·speaking veterinary students. The task of the translator has been well done, and the added illustrations are useful. The editor has occasionally thought it necessary to introduce a sentence or two of new matter, with which, as a rule, no fault can be found. Sometimes, however, the editor's contribution is not of the nature of an improvement, as, for example, when he raises a doubt as to the pos$ibility of bacterial diseases arising quite independently of contagion or infection (p. 71). The publishers' share of the work is very well done. Veterinary Toxicology. By Joshua A. Nunn, c.B., Colonel, A.V.c. etc. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1907. Price 5/- net. THIS small work of 191 pages is a reprint of articles which originally appeared in the Veterinary Journal. The author modestly disclaims for the work any originality, and candidly admits that it is only a compilation, mainly from foreign sources. In spite of this, however, the book is one which students preparing for examinations may find useful. Veterinary Surgical and Obstetrical Operations. By W. L. Williams, Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics, New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University. Second Edition, Revised. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, H)07. THE first edition of this work on surgical and obstetrical operations was reviewed in this Journal in 1903. The second edition has been considerably improved by revision of the text and the addition of a few new illustrations. As a useful guide to the performance of the principal operations on the dead subject the book can be commended to students.
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word puzzles which Dr Liautard has created III his attempts to render the French of the original work into English. It may be at once explained that the third chapter deals not with diseases special to all tissues, but with diseases affecting the various tissues, such as skin, muscles, tendons, etc. The work has many defects, some apparently belonging to the original, while others are obviously to be laid to the charge of the translator. Among the former one notices a tendency to wholly unnecessary amplification and explanation which is truly irritating. Take, for example, the following, which occurs on the very first page: "Under the influence of the pain produced by the instrument no animal will remain quiet. It will resist and try to defend itself, so that the surgeon who wishes to act with safety must take precautions against injury. The horse with his feet or teeth, the steer with his horns or legs, the dog and the pig with their teeth, the cat with its claws and canines may inflict dangerous wounds." This might be quite proper in a book for the instruction of little children, but it is surely out of place in a veterinary text-book. Translator's mishaps occur on almost every page, and every here and there one encounters a word which belongs to no language, living or dead. Such are, sphacel, erobica, bacterians, epiphysar, diaphysar, zooglocia. Text-Book of ComparatiYe General Pathology for Practitioners and Students of Veterinary Medicine. By Professor Dr Th. Kitt of Munich. Authorised Translation by Dr William W. Cad bury, Assistant Demonstrator of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. Edited with Notes and Additional Illustrations by Dr Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1906. Price 25/- net. WE had occasion to speak favourably of the German original of this work when it appeared in 1904, and the present translation will prove welcome to English·speaking veterinary students. The task of the translator has been well done, and the added illustrations are useful. The editor has occasionally thought it necessary to introduce a sentence or two of new matter, with which, as a rule, no fault can be found. Sometimes, however, the editor's contribution is not of the nature of an improvement, as, for example, when he raises a doubt as to the pos$ibility of bacterial diseases arising quite independently of contagion or infection (p. 71). The publishers' share of the work is very well done. Veterinary Toxicology. By Joshua A. Nunn, c.B., Colonel, A.V.c. etc. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1907. Price 5/- net. THIS small work of 191 pages is a reprint of articles which originally appeared in the Veterinary Journal. The author modestly disclaims for the work any originality, and candidly admits that it is only a compilation, mainly from foreign sources. In spite of this, however, the book is one which students preparing for examinations may find useful. Veterinary Surgical and Obstetrical Operations. By W. L. Williams, Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics, New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University. Second Edition, Revised. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, H)07. THE first edition of this work on surgical and obstetrical operations was reviewed in this Journal in 1903. The second edition has been considerably improved by revision of the text and the addition of a few new illustrations. As a useful guide to the performance of the principal operations on the dead subject the book can be commended to students.