PREFACE. 



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The ready sale of two previous editions encourages us to 

 hope that in its extended and improved form the Equine 

 Prescriber may be of service to the student and prac- 

 titioner. 



When it is reahzed how useful horses are, it is clear that 

 we owe some special care to the noble creatures who are 

 so willing to do our behests, even when the work is very 

 arduous ; and hence we feel great pleasure in briefly indi- 

 cating some of the measures which are requisite to maintain 

 the health and prevent the occurrence of disease. The 

 pursuit of medical science is one of the most intricate 

 branches of knowledge, and the horizon of our vision of 

 drugs is ever extending and progressing onwards. 



Often a little medicine may save a valuable life, so fre- 

 quently does corporeal existence hang on a fragile thread. 

 If great success is to be attained, our skill must be as 

 perfect as possible, for a little carelessness, wilfulness 

 or ignorance will work havoc or destroy. To say 

 nothing of the damage done by the indiscriminate use 

 of dru^s amongst human beings, one cannot but be con- 

 cerned to think of the numerous horses lost by the use of 

 ill-advised remedies, and even poisons, such as the various 



