INTRODUCTION. 



PROPER and enlightened attention to the wants of 

 Domestic Animals, is not only a sentiment of human- 

 ity, but a dictate of economy. To know at least in 

 good part what is the particular ailment of an animal, 

 and to know also how to relieve it, would seem to be 

 a necessary obligation of ownership. The least we 

 can return to the many faithful animals given us, is 

 to provide for their reasonable wants, not only in 

 health, but also sickness and disease. Not that every 

 man who owns a horse, should be necessarily a vet- 

 erinary surgeon ; and yet the way is so simple that 

 any intelligent person may readily cure a very large 

 proportion, nay, almost every disease to which his 

 animals are exposed, and yet bestow upon the sub- 

 ject only a moiety of attention. 



Among the many blessings that Homoeopathy has 

 conferred upon the world, not among the least is the 

 immense improvement which it has effected in the 

 treatment of the diseases of Domestic Animals. With 

 but little variation, to meet their peculiar habits and 

 susceptibilities, the same remedies which have been 

 so efficient in mitigating and curing the disease of men, 

 women and children, have been found equally success- 



