PEEFAOE. 



The want of an illustrated topographical treatise on equine anatomy has, 

 in the experience of the author, been a great barrier to the efficient 

 teaching of that all-important branch of veterinary education. In this 

 work the object of the author has been to place in the hands of veterinary 

 students a dissection guide comparable, in some degree, to the text-books 

 at the service of the practical student of human anatomy. The order of 

 dissection laid down is that which the author has found to be most advan- 

 tageous, and he has attempted to describe with accuracy and moderate 

 fulness the different organs as they present themselves in that order. 

 This description is largely supplemented by the illustrations, which arc 

 so complete that almost every organ in the body is delineated. The 

 majority of these illustations are original, being faithftil portraits of the 

 author's own dissections. It is hoped that they will prove useful to the 

 student, in the first place, as a plan and a guide in his work, and, 

 secondly, as a means by which he may afterwards summon up a mental 

 picture of his own dissections. 



While the book is specially designed for use in the dissecting-room, 

 the author ventures to hope that it may also be serviceable to the 

 veterinary practitioner. Special care has been taken in portraying those 

 regions that possess a surgical interest, and the illustrations furnish a 

 ready means by which the surgeon may refresh his memory regarding 

 the objects to be met in the course of an operation. 



The greater number of the original drawings were made in the dissecting- 

 room of the Royal (Dick's) Veterinary College, by Mr J. Bayne, artist; 

 a few were executed by Mr R. S. Reid, artist; and the remainder by 

 Mr R. H. Potts, veterinary student. A few of the illustrations were 

 directly drawn on stone by Messrs W. & A. K, Johnston. To all of 

 these gentlemen the author is miich indebted for the clearness and 

 fidelity with which they have delineated the various objects. 



The source of each of the borrowed illustrations is duly acknowledged 

 elsewliere, but the author is constrained to make special mention of 

 those from the systematic text-book of Professor Chauveau, who 

 generously consented to the copying of as many (tf his figures as might 

 be thought usefid for this work. 



