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Introduction to Veterinary Pathology
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Introduction to veterinary pathology. Norman F. concepts are presented in more than 100 tables and
Cheville, Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, over 200 figures. The tables are concise and easily read.
50010 1988. 537 pages. $59.95 U.S. The figures throughout are obviously well-chosen,
crisp and clean. A few electron micrographs, photo-
The author has a long and distinguished career as micrographs, line drawings and photographs of gross
a veterinary pathologist and scientific writer with lesions are all included. A unique feature of all chapters
particular expertise in ultrastructural pathology. This are so-called focus topics, encased in shadowed text
book is a welcome addition to the veterinary boxes, containing specific examples of diseases or
pathologist's library and to a long list of publications topics used to illustrate basic concepts of disease. In
by Dr. Cheville. my opinion these are an effective means of implanting
In the author's words, the book "is constructed for the basic concepts in the minds of veterinary students
the beginning student in veterinary pathology" with and neophyte pathologists. The use of bold text for
the goal being "to introduce new scientific informa- subheadings adds to the readability of each page.
tion on mechanisms of general tissue injury into the A list of references is found at the end of each chapter,
basic language of pathology". In my opinion, but the text is not referenced. The chapters on shock,
however, this book would also be an excellent source anemia, body lipid metabolism, and death and dying
of information for any veterinarian who wishes to contain information not as easily understood as that
review the basic mechanisms of disease. The author's in the other chapters. A few typographical errors are
textbook Cell Pathology would be a better choice, at present and I was surprised at the author's regular use
least for additional reading, for post-graduate students of the term Reticuloendothelial System instead of the
of pathology. now well-accepted Mononuclear Phagocyte System.
The book is divided into seven parts with a total of The book is highly recommended for veterinary
30 chapters. Each part can be studied independently in students, veterinary pathologists-in-training, research-
any order. The seven parts are: Introduction, Degene- ers and practitioners. Even after 14 years in diagnostic
ration, Growth Disturbances, Blood and the Vascular pathology, I found practical and enlightening informa-
System, Inflammation and Healing, Immunity, and tion in every chapter.
Causes of Disease.
The book is printed on high-gloss paper and the Reviewed by Edward G. (Ted) Clark, Department of
general layout as well as overall content is superb. The Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary
newest information on pathogenetic mechanisms is Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
presented in an easily-understood manner. Important Sask. Canada S7N OWO.
A feast in the wild, by Russel Kyle. Kudu Publishing, meat production in east Africa. He has since travelled
1 Lyne Road, Kidlington, Oxford 0X5 1AE, England. the world looking at projects managing wild species
203 pp, 1987. £12. for food, during which he has eaten guinea-pig in Peru,
crocodile in Zimbabwe, turtle in Brazil, and red deer
I f cattle had not been domesticated, they would prob- in New Zealand. His book is a well-written and
ably have been hunted to extinction. As it is, domes- thoughtful measure of his compassion for the fate of
ticated cattle have become the pre-eminent domesticated wild herbivorous species. Would well-planned and
herbivore and have been introduced at the expense of deliberate management for meat enable the survival
other species all over the world. Unhappily they have both of wild animals and wild environments, for the
sometimes been introduced into areas which do not multifold benefit of humans? His fast-moving discus-
suit them, for example, during the recent Sahel sions include the recent spectacular development of
drought, camels munched on happily, while cattle died deer farming in New Zealand, the potential of large
like flies. There are globally only about a dozen species rodents as fast food for developing countries and,
of domesticated animals with any significant role as closer to home, the possibilities of using the yak and
food producers. Russell Kyle asks why other animals, musk-ox as a meat source in Canada. The ideas are
particularly the 200 herbivore species over the size of interesting and far ranging, although he ignores one
hares, have never been deliberately used for meat pro- aspect of "ecological imperialism", the effect of intro-
duction, since they are often superbly adapted to duction of exotic grasses and weeds in disturbing native
environments in which conventional species do badly. environments and helping cattle and sheep compete
In southern and east Africa in the 1960s, over a million with indigenous herbivores.
wild herbivores were slaughtered in an unsuccessful at- Institutional veterinary medicine needs to move to
tempt to remove the trypanosome reservoir so that deliberately address the vital issues of environmental
cattle could graze safely. This blinkered approach degradation and wildlife conservation. Dr Kyle's
ignored the fact that the herbivores slaughtered were splendid effort will be a useful contribution.
themselves naturally resistant to trypanosomiasis-why
not use their meat instead? John F. Prescott, B VSc PhD, Department of
Dr Kyle, a practicing veterinarian in Britain, had his Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, Ontario
interest in animal domestication aroused when, as a Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph,
student, he studied the management of wild eland for Ontario NIG 2W1.
444 Can Vet J Volume 30, May 1989
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