PART II. DISEASES. 



During a very busy practice as a veterinarian for the 

 past 27 years, some of the early part of which was 

 spent as veterinarian to the Third Avenue Street Rail- 

 road Co. (2,100 horses), the Bleecker Street Railroad Co. 

 (000 horses), the Knickerbocker Ice Co. (400 horses), 

 and the New York Transfer Co. (400 horses), I have 

 naturally had the opportunity seldom offered to vet- 

 erinarians of the present day to study in a practical 

 manner the nature of all the various diseased conditions 

 to which horses are subject, and to demonstrate by ex- 

 periment the efficacy of the various means of treatment 

 for the cure of each disease. This has been rendered 

 all the more easy of accomplishment by my early train- 

 ing in the sciences of Chemistry and Animal Physiology, 

 in each of which branches I received a government 

 prize, given by the Science and Art department of the 

 administration in Great Britain. Neither have I neg- 

 lected the opportunity that this city affords of keeping 

 up to date in the line of progress, having taken the 

 special course in Pathology that is offered at the New 

 York Polyclinic Post Graduate Medical School. Having 

 done a large amount of work in Chemical and Patho- 

 logical laboratories, I have had opportunities . that fall 

 to the lot of but few veterinarians. 



In the few following pages I shall attempt to give 

 the stock owner the benefit of my past experience as 

 well as the best instruction that is offered by other au- 

 thors in the treatment of diseases. 



