PEEFATORY 



The author of this work has endeavored to give the 

 reader correct ideas of the nature and treatment of dis- 

 eases occurring in that faithful servant and noble ani- 

 mal, the horse. It is intended to supply the wants of 

 that class of agriculturists and horsemen — and their 

 name is legion — who are in favor of a more sanative 

 and rational system of medication than that recommended 

 in many works on farriery. Such individuals, in conse- 

 quence of the scarcity of competent veterinary surgeons, 

 are compelled to treat their own horses ; and this 

 work is intended to be to them, in the hour cf need, 

 one that will enable them to restore the sick and cure 

 the lame. 



The author has aimed to be brief yet practical, and 

 has selected, eclectically, from the materia medica, those 

 agents which his own experience, during a professional 

 career of nine years in the vicinity of Boston, has proved 

 to be the most efficacious in curing disease and lame- 

 ness — so far as medicine is capable of accomplishing 



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