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PREFACE. 



BOOKS dwelling absolutely on poultry diseases, 

 written in plain language by veterinary medical 



authors, are few. 



The present book is an effort to at least partially fill 

 this gap. In compiling this small book, the writer en- 

 deavors to base it on sound medical facts, such as can 

 be obtained from the best veterinary writers of this 

 country as well as from foreign authors, and from his 

 own experience, and to give it in such language that 

 the common poultry-raiser may be able to compre- 

 hend it. 



The description and treatment on the several poultry 



ailments will be as brief and practical as it is possible 

 to make them, and yet do justice to the immense poul- 

 try industry. 



The following authors have been freely consulted: 

 The Diseases of Poultry, by D. E. Salmon, D. V. M. ; 

 Prof. Law's Veterinary Medicine; Friedberger & 

 Frohner's Pathology and Therapeuties of the Domestic 

 Animals; Chauveau's Comparative Anatomy; Win- 

 slow 's Materia Medica, and numerous others treating 

 on Veterinary Medicine and Poultry Raising. 



The author also desires to record his obligations to 

 his preceptor, Dr. Gilbert Hess, of Ashland, Ohio, 

 for valuable information. 



H. H. L< 



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