TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 



The popularity of Frohner's General Therapeutics among 

 veterinarians to whom it is accessible in German and the lack of a 

 smiilar work in English suggested this translation, which it is 

 hoped will prove equally as serviceable to American and English 

 veterinarians. A few additions which have been made to the text, 

 most of them of an explanatory character, have been placed 

 between brackets ([]). The German regulations governing dis- 

 infection for the different infectious diseases have been included in 

 the translation; while they do not have the force of law in this 

 country, the methods they describe, with some allowance for differ- 

 ences in conditions, are also applicable here. The etymological 

 footnotes explaining the derivation of the terms referring to 

 therapeutic action have been omitted. In the descriptions of the 

 therapeutic uses of the individual drugs, the names used in the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia and in the United States Dispensa- 

 tory have been employed, and these have been followed, wherever 

 it seemed desirable, by the common or English name. Non- 

 official drugs are indicated by an asterisk (*). Doses are given in 

 the metric system, as in the original, with the equivalent in the 

 apothecaries' system. 



Louis A. Klein. 



Philadelphia, July, 1914. 



