IV PREFACE . 



surgeon ; when in times past (and even in the present day 

 under empirical and unscientific hands) they were either 

 altogether lost, or left in an unsound state to limp out the 

 remnant of their impaired functional powers. With the 

 best modern veterinary practitioners the phleam is almost 

 laid aside; and, in my opinion, the day is not very remote 

 when the drawing knife, from the growing practice of 

 abstaining from paring the feet, is likely to undergo a 

 similar dereliction. The principle of '^not doing too much^^ 

 seems fast gaining ground in medical as well as other 

 pursuits. 



In this '^ New Edition^^ I have got rid, as much as I 

 could, of the hybrid nosological character of the original 

 work, by introducing wherever I felt able and warranted 

 so to do, technical names for diseases in lieu of the vulgar 

 cant and farriers' appellations in common use. I have also 

 made some other important alterations, as well as " ex- 

 tensive additions,^' in the present Edition, which I hope 

 will be found, in the hands of the veterinary surgeon, to 

 place it in a yet more favorable light. 



The Author. 



„ Cavalry Barracks, Windsor; 

 September, 1853. 



