PREFACE. 



In offering this volume to the consideration of members of 

 the Veterinary Profession, as well as to Students and others 

 who are interested in the study and advancement of the 

 Veterinary Science, I feel it will suffice to say that I 

 have endeavoured to the best of my ability to render the 

 matter contained in the following pages of as great ^r«c//c«/ 

 value as possible — to present in the most plain and concise 

 manner the nature, causes, symptoms, and treatment of each 

 disease in the form in which it most frequently occurs. I 

 have also endeavoured to briefly describe the various con- 

 ditions requiring surgical interference, as well as to point 

 out the surgical operations required to be performed in such 

 cases — the proper methods of operating and the indications, 

 favourable or otherwise, to the performance of such opera- 

 tions. 



I have closely adhered to the teachings of one of the 

 most eminently practical veterinarians and thorough gentle- 

 men whom it has ever been my good fortune to meet — 

 Professor A. Smith, Principal of the Ontario Veterinary 

 College. But in the few cases in which experience and 



