HIPPOPATHOLOGY. 



INTRODUCTORY SECTION. 



I. HEALTH. II. TRANSITION JFROM HEALTH TO DISEASE. 

 III. DISEASE. 



THE SCIENCE of MEDICINE has for its single 

 object the preservation of health, or the cure or removal 

 of disease. Strictly speaking, a domesticated animal must 

 either be in a state of health or one of disease ; at the same 

 time, in practice we are not unfrequently reminded that 

 states do exist which cannot be said to be altogether healthy 

 or diseased; they are not in truth entirely referable to 

 one condition or tlie other, but to a state which is either a 

 compound of both, or else consists of a transition from 

 one to the other. Thus, a knowledge of hea'lth, and of the 

 means necessary to its preservation and improvement, come 

 no less within the province of the veterinarian, than does 

 that science by which he undertakes to mitigate or eradicate 

 disease. 



This science applied to man takes the name of Human 

 Medicine ; extended to animals it becomes Veterinary 

 Medicine. Its first division, that regarding the conserva- 

 tion of health, has got the name of Hygiene {vyirjg, health). 

 The study of diseases, tiiat of Pathology (jraOog, affection ; 

 Xoyoc, discourse) ; while a subdivision of the last-named 

 part makes us acquainted with the means by which diseases 

 are cured, and is called Therapeutics {QipaTrtvTw, I cure). 



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