6 PREFACE, 



scientific knowledge of Professor Colman and Assistant Professor Sevvell, of the 

 Royal Veterinary College, London, and the number of veterinary surgeons 

 furnished by that establishment yearly, we hope in a great measure ere long to 

 see the empiric in veterinary medicine totally unknown. 



This publication is undertaken to render plain and familiar a subject that has 

 been treated by some of the most learned veterinary practitioners of the present 

 day. Notwithstanding the great ability displayed by Mr, Blane, Mr. Clark, Mr. 

 Percival, and others, their works, though of great science, are more adapted to the 

 veterinary student, than to all persons interested in the proper management 

 of the Horse. 



The prescriptions we have given will be found applicable to all the disorders to 

 which they are attached, without a long hst of articles, which nine times out of ten 

 operate one against the other. 



In classing the diseases of the Horse, we have somewhat differed from most 

 writers, but it has been done to render the subject more intelligible to the 

 unlearned reader. As this is a book of practice, of nearly twenty years 

 experience, we have inserted nothing which is not based on real experience. 



