CRITICAL NOTICES.
FIELD, July 28, 1863.—"The book contains nearly 600 pages of valuable matter, which reflects great credit on its author, and, owing to its practical details, the result of deep scientific research, deserves a place in the library of medical, veterinary, and non-professional readers."
ATHENÆUM, August 4, 1860.—"Mr. Mayhew has written several works on the diseases, with details of the anatomy, of animals. His accuracy is great. The chapters are well arranged. Each speaks of the diseases of one part of the equine frame. The illustrations to these are excellent. The operations are accurately described; not the slightest useful hint is forgotten; while to render this portion more intelligible, diagrams of the parts to be operated on, with views of the instruments, are generally given; and the prescriptions, as stated in the title-page, are made out in English. The causes, symptoms, and treatment of diseases are briefly recorded in a summary, forming an appendix. We conclude by commending Mr. Mayhew's book, especially to every possessor of the most useful of the 'servants of man.'"
ILLUSTRATED NEWS.—"The great mass of the illustrations are wonderfully faithful, and they are so varied and interesting that we would undertake to get rid of the most confirmed bore that ever pressed heavily on mankind for a good two hours by only handing him the book, and directing his attention to them. It is a well-known fact that grooms only remember the names of four or five diseases, and are sadly indiscriminate in their knowledge of symptoms. This book furnishes at once the bane and the antidote, as the drawings show the horse not only suffering from every kind of disease, but in the different stages of it, while the alphabetical summary at the end gives the cause, symptoms, and treatment of each."
GLOBE.—"Every gentleman who possesses or cares for horses, would do well to keep this book in his house."
ERA.—"We advisedly say that 'The Illustrated Horse Doctor' is the very best book of the kind which we know; and what gives it an especial charm is, that the author so thoroughly sympathises with the noble animal which he describes. Without pretending to go into any analysis of this valuable work, we at once pronounce it as scientific, yet intelligible; informing, yet highly amusing; acceptable to the profound horse-doctor, yet the work of all others for the bookshelves in every gentleman's sanctum."
ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE.—"Mr. Mayhew's volume will, we imagine, meet with a hearty welcome. It is just such a good practical work on the Veterinary Art as most of us horse-using (and not unfrequently, we fear, abusing) Englishmen have long felt the need of.—We must not conclude our remarks without commenting on the numerous wood-cuts with which the volume is embellished. It is truly, as it professes to be, an 'Illustrated Horse Doctor.'"
ILLUSTRATED TIMES.—"Many years ago the writer of these lines was incidentally 'read up' in horse literature, and a good deal in the way of sporting people. His reading and observation in that way have been very pleasantly recalled by this model book. We need not waste words about this admirable volume—manual, we were going to say, but it is more of an armful than a handful. It is quite beyond praise of ours in its completeness and general excellence, concerned as it is our lot to be with the study instead of the steed. But we showed it to a friend of ours (living at Horsely-down), who spends his mornings at Tattersall's and his afternoons at the Alhambra, and his evenings at Astley's, and his criticism was conveyed in these emphatic words. 'Sir,' said he (his name is Ryder), 'it is the Buchan's Domestic Medicine of the stable; the mantle of Bucephalus has fallen upon Mr. Mayhew.' Every way the work is interesting, and it is beautifully got up; the paper and print being the best we have seen for some time."