THE MODERN VETERINARY ADVISER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 8

THE MODERN VETERINARY ADVISER.

The second volume of the MooWn Veterinary Adviser, edited by Profeswr Gerald Leighton and published by the CjNCton Publishing Company, London, sustains the high promise of the first in providing a work of a comprehensive character, dealing with- the diseases of the domesticated animals generally, and not_ with a single species. The horse has received by far the larger share of attention by veterinary writers, and there are books galore upon the diseases of dogs, and an ever-increasing number of purely scientific treatises dealing with some particular aspect of veterinary science, but a general practical work on veterinary treatment and embracing all the best that is modern was a felt wa*t. The present book seems likely to supply the need by those whr require a fairly comprehensive knowledge, without passing through a curriculum at one of the' schools, or gathering together a great library from which to collect crumbs of information with difficulty. Admirers of the Clydesdale will appreciate the fine portrait of Baron's Pride on the frontispiece, tout would like to have seen his front feet. The subjects treated in Volume II are diseases of the circulation, cuts, wounds, contusions, the care of the mare and foal, shoeing, diseases of bones and joints, bacterial diseases of animals, and a separate chapter for the bacterial diseases of horses, parasites, poisonings, medicine chests, breaking in, riding, driving, and feeding—trulj a large and useful assortment of subjects for the student. The chapter on shoeing will be read with interest, and the illustrations, like those throughout the volume, are most helpful in illuminating the text, ■ but they have a 'quality in comjnon, suggestive of the blackboard and chalk, producing instructive diagrams without too nice a regard for the artistic susceptibilities «f the olass. The eminently practical nature <rf the work may be judged by the following remark in connection with drugsv—"Our sole object here, as throughout the ■whole of these volumes, is to place before the intelligent animal owner precisely the same kind and amount of information •which well-educated parents nowadays ought to "possess in order to be .able'to deal intelligently with any emergency which wiay arise in the case of' their own chil•*ren."