PREFACE. 



Europe, with the most brilliant success. In 

 America and the British Isles, within the past few 

 yours, not only have individual practitioners ap- 

 plied its remedies with equal success, but some 

 large veterinary institutions, and most of our 

 principal equestrian troops and menageries, em- 

 ploy it exclusively in all diseases of their horses, 

 experience having shown them its great value 

 and curative power, and its immense superiority 

 over every other method. But the inherent intri- 

 cacies of the system rendered its general intro- 

 duction for the cure of animals impossible ; and 

 though, in the hands of some practitioners and 

 veterinary surgeons, it worked wonders enough to 

 show its astonishing capacities, yet to the masses 

 it has remained a sealed book. 



The collection of materials for this work, by 

 obtaining practical and authentic information for 

 the friends of Hornceopathy who have sought and 

 found relief for their suffering animals that have 

 been afflicted with disease, has involved the labor 

 of some years. The benefit derived from this 

 mode of treatment is known to many, and to 

 those who look into it with an unprejudiced eye, 

 it grows upon the attention like the increasing 

 attraction of a marvelous tale ; and the affects are, 

 in fact, as strange and as full of wonders as the 

 fabulous gardens in the " Arabian Nights Enter 

 tainments;" but if one half, or one fiftieth, or 

 one hundredth part of the statements in its favor 



