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P E E F A C E. 



Ix preparing the first of these Manuals of Veterinary 

 Science, it has been our object to bring the chief facts 

 of Equine Medicine and Pathology before the reader in as 

 concise and clear a manner as possible. 



It is our hope, regarding the many and great difficulties 

 which are necessarily encountered in a work of this kind, 

 that allowance will be made for errors of omission and 

 commission which may be detected. 



We have adopted a somewhat different classification of 

 disease from that in vogue, and trust that its greater 

 simplicity will entail less labour on the part of the student, 

 without rendering it any the less scientific. 



Throughout we have endeavoured to lay stress on those 

 points which are of very great interest and importance 

 from a comparative pathological point of view. 



Into the histological structure of the malignant growths 

 of the horse we have, purposely, not fully entered, it 

 being our purpose to publish, as soon as opportunity arises, 

 a monograph on the comparative pathology and etiology of 

 the malignant growths in man and animals. 



