农业部畜牧兽医局编写、农业出版社出版的《人民公社畜牧兽医手册》是一本好书。它从家畜、家禽的卫生、防疫乃至对常见疫病的诊断和治疗,给了我们一系列的切合实际的知识,对我们预防和治疗家畜、家禽疫病,大有帮助。《手册》除了具有语言通俗、文字简炼、材料丰富和方法实用等优点外,还有一个突出的特色,那就是贯穿着中西合流的新兽医学的新精神、新风格。全书从诊断方法到防治措施,都是既继承和发扬了祖国兽医学的“整体观点”和“辩证施治”的方针,又吸取了现代兽医学 Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture prepared by Agricultural Press published “people’s commune animal husbandry and veterinary manual” is a good book. It provides us a series of practical knowledge from the livestock, poultry health, epidemic prevention and even the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases, which is very helpful for the prevention and treatment of livestock and poultry diseases. In addition to the advantages of language simplicity, concise language, material richness and practicality, the “Handbook” has a salient feature that runs through the new spirit and style of new veterinary medicine integrating Chinese and Western cultures. The book from the diagnostic methods to prevention and control measures, both inherit and carry forward the motherland veterinary “holistic view” and “dialectical treatment” approach, but also learned the modern veterinary science