6 PREFACE. 



scientific knowledge of Professor Colman and Assistant Professor Sewell, 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 upon by some of the most learned veterinary practitioners of the pre- 

 sent 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 manage- 

 ment of the Horse. 



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

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

 operate one against the other. 



In cla'-^' diseases of the Horse, we have somewhat dififered from most 



^ ' but it has been done to render the subject more intelhgible to the 



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

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



