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VII. 



DISEASES OR HORSES.* 



IT is the purpose of the present chapter to furnish to the own- 

 ers of horses and cattle a plain, practical, thorough, and re- 

 liable treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the 

 diseases to which those animals are subject. It is intended to 

 make each case so clear that any person of ordinary intelli- 

 gence may be able to detect and treat each disease with certainty 

 and success. It is not intended to convert all stock-raisers 

 into veterinary surgeons. The necessity will still remain as be- 

 fore for the practiced and qualified surgeon ; but it does not fol- 

 low, any more than in the case of the diseases to which human 

 beings are subject, that the skillful physician is to take the 

 place of a general knowledge of the causes, nature, and cure of 

 the ills to which all flesh is heir. It is hoped that without any 

 arrogance of assumption, and in consideration of a long and 

 carefully conducted education, it may be modestly and yet 

 confidently asserted that the current chapter presents the very 

 best that is known with reference to the diseases of horses and 

 cattle, and of the agencies to be employed in the prevention 

 and cure of all such ailments. It is only necessary to add in 

 this opening paragraph a single general remark, and that is 



The veterinary department of this volume has been very carefully compiled 

 and edited by R W. STKXVART, D. V. S., from stenographic notes of lectures deliv- 

 ered at the veterinary colleges of Toronto and New York city, by the most eminent 

 veterinary surpeons of the United States and Canada. To his extensive and pro- 

 found theoretical education the author has also added many years of careful obser- 

 vation and practical experience in the professional treatment of animals. What he 

 has produced in the present work, therefore, may be relied upon as the most valu- 

 able and authentic treatise on the subject ever offered to the farmers and stock- 

 raisers of our country. TUB PUBLISIIEKS. 



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