rEEFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



The aim of the following work is to render a full, and at tlie 

 same time concise, exposition of tlie Pathology of tlie Diseases 

 — more particularly of the Surgical Diseases — to which the 

 Domestic Animals are subject, together with an account of the 

 principles which ought to regulate their management and 

 treatment. 



The chapter on Inflammation will be found to contain the 

 latest information ; and it may not be amiss to direct attention 

 to what is said regarding the formation of pus, as being of 

 importance not only in itself, but as illustrative also of the mode 

 of formation of other pathological products. 



I have been enabled, from the ]\Iuseum of the Edinburgh 

 Veterinary College, which is rich in pathological specimens — 

 collected by my distinguished predecessor and teacher, the late 

 Professor Dick — to furnish numerous illustrations of the patho- 

 logy of bone, woodcuts of which will be found throughout the 

 work. Numerous woodcuts of ^ drawings from microscopic 

 preparations have also been inserted, in order to render more 

 clear tlie description of the minute anatomy of various morbid 

 Droducts. Some of these woodcuts, as will be seen by the 

 explanatory notes appended, have been obtained from various 

 medical works; whilst the rest are original, and prepared 

 from specimens, mostly collected by myself, and now in my 

 possession. 



Much assistance has been rendered me in the preparation of 



