PREFACE 



The title page of this work explains its nature, scope, 

 and character so perfectly that little else need be said 

 on the subject. It is compiled from the highest author- 

 ities and the latest editions of their respective works. 

 For example, the parts entitled " Medicines and their 

 Doses" and "Medicines and their Classes" are based, or 

 chiefly based, on the seventh edition of Dun's "Vet- 

 erinary Medicines." Prof. Percivall's works, from which 

 numerous extracts have been made, are getting old, it is 

 true ; but as his words are often quoted by all modern 

 veterinary authors, no apology is needed for the extracts 

 from that source in this work. The illustrations, num- 

 bering, in the aggregate, 232, are the best of their kind, 

 and are taken from here and there. Many are from May- 

 hew and Armitage. 



One of the drawbacks of most veterinary books is the 

 confusion of nomenclature. This is an almost necessary 

 fault of this volume, for if several of the different names 

 by which some diseases are known were not given, how 

 could the unprofessional reader recognize them ? For 

 example, on page 225 is the following : " Carbuncular 

 fever (anthrax), also called Texas fever, splenic fever, 

 trembles, charbon, blain, &c." Page 238: " Hoven 

 (tympanites), also known as hove, hoove, blown, dew- 

 blown, fog-sickness, &c." Page 322 : " Swine plague or 

 swine anthrax, also known as hog cholera, red soldier, 

 blue sickness, measles, erysipelas, intestinal fever, typhoid 

 fever, &c." The using of the word i thrush ' to indicate 

 both disease of the foot and the mouth is certainly inex- 

 cusable confusion. (See pages 196, 238, 296.) It is like 

 using the word ' fang ' to indicate the root as well as the 



