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LIBRARY 



PREFACE. 



HIS unpretending little Treatise is an 

 attempt to supply an oft expressed 

 want. Namely, a brief, popular and 

 reliable Hand-Book on that depart- 

 ment of Veterinary Science which treats of 

 Horses, Cattle, and their Diseases. 



It need hardly be proved by any argument 

 of mine that in accordance with the advance 

 ment of Medical Science in our day, a new work 

 (written up to the present time) is absolutely 

 required to instruct owners of horses and cattle 

 in the latest and most approved modes of treat- 

 ment in all diseases of horses and cattle. Within 

 the past twenty years new diseases or rather 

 new forms of old diseases (including the late 

 Epizootic and Spinal Meningitis) have afflicted 

 the equine race in our own country and elsewhere. 

 These diseases were considerably altered in 

 character from the type with which our Grand 

 fathers were acquainted. For these reasons it 

 would be exceedingly iumdicious to pursue PX 



