Introduction. 



This collection of therapeutic notes and clinical cer- 

 tainties has been gotten together as the result of 

 more than ten years of active practice, during which 

 period the writer's personal experience, as well as 

 his deductions from the work of others, has been 

 drawn upon and collated for the purpose of publica- 

 tion. 



No system of medicine is upheld in this treatise; 

 nor are the pathological or other technical phases of 

 veterinary science given preference over the procedures 

 of a definitely practical character, even though the lat- 

 ter border on the empirical. The end-result, the ability 

 to relieve or cure, receives first consideration through- 

 out the entire volume. 



While the book will be most valuable to the 

 recent graduate, it is confidently hoped and believed 

 that it can also be used with profit by those who have 

 long been engaged in practice. 



The writer will be pleased to receive comments, 

 criticisms or additions for possible incorporation in 

 future editions. 



Brillion, Wis. Mart R. Steffen. 



December, 1914. 



