PREFACE 



AT THE request of some of the leading stockowners and 

 prominent farmers of Canada and the United States, 

 and believing that a work of this kind has long been 

 wanted by those interested in domestic animals, the 

 authors have undertaken the publication of The Veterinary 

 Science in the simplest English language. They have en- 

 deavored to make it a profitable and interesting study for 

 stockowners and their sons, who, by carefully consulting its 

 pages, will find it to contain information of untold value. 



Part I. contains the practical anatomy or conformation 

 of the horse, and should be carefully studied. 



The diseases and treatment of the horse follow in Part 

 II. Chapter I. lays the plan of how to examine a sick horse, 

 and as the reader proceeds it will be found simple in the 

 extreme. Mistakes in dealing with a case can hardly be 

 made, as the causes, symptoms and treatment of the diseases 

 are so fully explained that the stockowner has but to follow 

 the directions laid down. 



The comparative anatomy, diseases and treatment of 

 cattle in Part III. will likewise be found as simply and satis- 

 factorily explained as that of the horse. 



The diseases and treatment of sheep, found in Part IV., 

 are fully dealt with, and it will be found by persons who 

 read and study this part of the book that sheep are as easily 

 treated as any of the other animals. The same may be said 

 of the diseases and treatment of pigs, dogs and poultry, found 

 in the same Part. 



The medicines and receipts that constitute Part V. are a 

 very important part of the study; they are fully and prac- 

 tically explained. The receipts for making liniments, lotions, 

 powders, blisters, etc., are very valuable to everybody, especi- 

 ally those interested in stock, to which it may now be said 

 the farmer looks for a livelihood. 



The index, as will be seen, is a prominent feature of the 

 book, being an index of symptoms as well as of diseases. 

 This makes it very easy to find out from what an animal is 

 suffering. Finding the symptom in the index directs you 

 exactly to that part of the book in which that particular dis- 

 ease is treated. 



J. E. Hodgins, V. S. V. D. 



London, Canada. T. H. Haskett, D. V. D. 



