PREFACE. xiii 



With respect to the plan of the present 

 work, it will be perceived that I have not en- 

 tered very extensively into a description of in- 

 ternal diseases, from a conviction that such a 

 treatise would be attended with more danger 

 than utility. 



The internal diseases of horses, except some 

 few which are well marked, are so obscure as 

 even to baffle tlic skill of an experienced prac- 

 titioner in his endeavours to ascertain them. 



Hence it cannot be expected that proprie- 

 tors of horses, from the casual and confined 

 observation furnished by their own stables, can 

 acquire the faculty of discrimination in this 

 respect, and the mischief arising from an im- 

 proper administration of medicine, must be sui- 



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