IV PREFACE. 



attempting to systematize that knowledge. The last, com- 

 prising the greater portion of the book, is devoted to a de- 

 tailed description of the chief diseases to which the horse in 

 our country is liable. 



This section is arranged in two divisions, the first embrac- 

 ing general and constitutional diseases, the other those which 

 we usually regard as local, and which are examined in groups 

 in accordance with the situations or localities where their 

 diagnostic lesions are chiefly met with. 



Of the several chapters comprising this section the ones on 

 ' Biu-sattee ' and ' Surra ' have been compiled from information 

 obtainable regarding these affections, scattered throughout 

 our periodical professional literature, or received personally 

 from other sources. They give, I believe, a fair and con- 

 densed account of what is known up to the present time of 

 these diseases affecting the horses of our Eastern Empire. 



To my colleague, Mr. Penberthy, I would here desire to 

 express my thanks for assistance rendered in correcting the 

 proofs of the sheets as they passed through the press. 



Royal Veterinary College, London, 

 July, 1883. 



