PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION, 1906. 



This manual, as originally compiled l)y Alexander Plummer, D. V. S., veterinarian 

 Fourth Cavalry, and Richard H. Power, V. S., veterinarian Artillery Corps, was pub- 

 lished in 1903. In this edition the work has been revised by the compilers, assisted 

 by Charles 11. Jewell, D. V. M., veterinarian, Thirteenth Cavalry, and Capt. Geo. H. 

 Cameron, Fourth Cavalry, secretary. 



Matter from the companion text-book, '"The Army Horseshoer," has been substi- 

 tuted in several places for that of the original. 



An original chapter on Tropical Diseases, by Veterinarian Jewell, and many illus- 

 trations from photographs and drawings, have been added. 



Captain Cameron, in addition to his work on the revision of the text, made the 

 original drawings and prepared the others for reproduction. His valuable assistance 

 is here acknowledg(?d. 



The greater part oi the photographic work was done by First Lieut. S. B. Pearson, 

 Ninth Cavalry. 



The arrangement of tlie text has been adapted to the course of practical instruction, 

 and the language, as far as possible, to study by men who, as a rule, have had limited 

 educational advantages. 



, School of Application for Cavalry and Field Artillery, 

 Fort Kilt'!/, Kans., Decernhrr JO, 1905. 



PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION, 1909. 



In this edition- a few errors of plates and text have been corrected, and certain 

 parts of the text have been rewritten as the result of the class room experience of the 

 instructors, \'eterinarian Alexander Plummer, Fourth Cavalry, and Veterinarian 

 Charles II. Jewell, Sixth Field Artillery (horse). 



A chapter on Age by the Teeth, compiled by the secretary, First Lieut. Robert M. 

 Danford-, Fifth Field Artillery, has been added. Plate IX has been redrawn and 

 Plate XIX, prepared by Capt. Geo. H. Cameron, P'ourth Cavalry, assistant comman- 

 dant. 



Mounted Service School, 



Fort BUey, Kans., Jubj .W, 1909. 



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