PREFACE. 



aT THE request of some of the leading stockowners and 

 prominent farmers of Canada and the United States, and 

 beheving that a work of this kind has long been wanted 

 by those interested in domestic animals, the authors have 

 undertaken the publication of The Veterinary Scienxe in the 

 simplest English language. They have endeavored to make it a 

 profitable and interesting study for stockowners and their sons, 

 who, by carefully consulting the pages of this book, will find it to 

 contain information of untold value. 



The first fifty-eight pages contain the practical anatomy or 

 conformation of the horse, and should be carefully studied. 



The diseases and treatment of the horse follow these, and 

 Chapter I. lays the plan of how to examine a sick horse, and as 

 the reader proceeds it will be found to be simple in the extreme. 

 Mistakes in doctoring can hardly be made, as the causes, 

 symptoms and treatment of the diseases are so fully explained 

 that the stockowner has but to follow the directions laid down 

 in this book. 



The comparative anatomy, diseases and treatment of cattle, 

 beginning at page 243, will likewise be found to be as simple and 

 satisfactorily explained as that of the horse. 



The diseases and treatment of sheep, found between pages 

 -316 and 337 of the book, are fully dealt with, and it will be found 

 by persons who read and study this part of the book that sheep 

 are as easy to doctor as any of the other animals. The same 

 may be said of the diseases and treatment of pigs, dogs and 

 poultry, found at page 337 and following pages. 



The medicines and receipts constitute Part V. of the book, 

 and are a very important part of the study; they are fully and 

 practically explained. The receipts for making linmients, lotions, 

 powders, blisters, etc., are very valuable to everybody, especially 

 those interested in stock, which it may now be said is what the 

 farmer looks to for a livelihood. 



The index, as you will see, is a prominent feature of the 

 bookj being an index of symptoms as well as of diseases. This 

 makes it very easy for anyone to find out what their animal is 

 suffering from, as they can look lor tiie symptom the animal is 

 showing in the index, which directs tliem to the rit^ht disease. 



