INTRODUCTION. 



PROPER and enlightened attention to the want* 

 of domestic animals, is not only a sentiment o 

 humanity, but a dictate of economy. To know ai 

 least in good part what is the particular ailmen 1 

 of an animal, and to know also how to relieve it 

 would seem to be a necessary obligation to owner 

 ship. The least we can return to the many faith 

 fill animals given us, is to provide for their reason 

 able wants, not only in health, but also in sickness 

 and disease Not * that every man who owns f 

 horse should be a veterinary surgeon ; and yet the 

 way is so simple that any intelligent person, bj 

 the aid of this little manual and case of niedi 

 cines, may readily cure a large proportion, nay 

 almost every disease to which his animals are ex 

 posed, and yet bestow upon the subject but litth 

 attention. 



Among the many blessings which Homoeopath} 

 has conferred upon the world, not among the leasl 

 is the immense improvement which it has effectec 

 in the treatment of the diseases of domestic ani 

 mals. With but little variation, to meet theii 



