LIBRARY 



CALIFOHNIA. 



PREFACE. 



The plan of this little book is intended to be 

 precisely such as the author conceived to be 

 wanted by the public. Such a manual as this' 

 has long been wanted, and the stiring interest of 

 the theme, leaving out of view its importance, 

 should recommend it as likely to prove a welcome 

 and animating addition to the study of veterinary 

 practice. And yet, to remove long standing prej u 

 dices, the author is well aware is a difficult task . 

 still he ventures to hope that a careful perusal of 

 these few pages will excite in some degree the 

 feelings of humanity, in respect to the many suf- 

 ferings to which the generous animal is frequently 

 liable from unmerited cruelty and injudicious 

 treatment, and that mankind may be induced to 

 view his sufferings with an eye of sympathy and 

 tenderness, and have recourse to a humane mode 

 of treatment when accident or disease may re- 

 require it. 



As an eminent writer has truly said. " The 

 world owes much to homoeopathy more, proba- 

 bly, than has ever been told, or will ever be 



