PREFACE. Vll 



stance 'the reason why the treatment recommended is 

 desirable, in order that in simple matters those persons 

 who may follow it may not be acting in the dark. 



For the nse of trainers or the veterinary student, no 

 portion of this work is intended; since the one has 

 access to men of superior practice and information to 

 myself, and the other to works which treat of each 

 subject discussed more fully and elaborately, but 

 which would be at once both wearisome and unin- 

 telligible to the greater bulk of sportsmen and grooms. 



Hugely, Staffordshire: Sept. 1865. 



