PREFACE 



The object of the editor in preparing this work has been 

 to set out in one compact whole some of the most useful 

 information relating to the horse. The origin and develop- 

 ment of the horse, his varieties, his breeding, training, and 

 management, in health and disease, with other cognate sub- 

 jects, have each in turn been considered. 



To render the book more intelligible and useful to the 

 reader, each group of diseases is preceded by a brief reference 

 to the anatomy and physiology of the parts therein concerned, 

 and the whole has been written in the simplest possible 

 language consistent with a clear enunciation of the subject. 



Having regard to the extent and variety of the matter to 

 be dealt with, it was necessary to seek the co-operation of 

 outside help, and I have much pleasure in saying how readily 

 this was accorded by my friends Sir George Brown, C.B., Dr. 

 Fleming, Professor Shave, Mr. Harold Leeney, Mr. Hunting, 

 Mr. Vero Shaw, Mr. Lupton, Mr. Malcolm, and others, and 

 how much I owe them my grateful acknowledgments. 



The greatest care has been taken in the selection and 

 production of the very large series of illustrations which will 

 be found in this book. Of these many are in colours, em- 

 bracing portraits of prize - winning animals of the leading 

 varieties, and drawings from nature illustrating anatomical 

 and pathological subjects. Of the large number of black-and- 

 \\'hite illustrations many are reproductions fi-om photographs, 



