PREFACE. 



In introducing my Sketches of Horses in Accident and 

 Disease, I should explain, in excuse of their appearance, 

 that they were not drawn originally with any idea of 

 publication, and they are now offered in response to the 

 solicitation of several professional friends. From my 

 earliest association with the Veterinary profession I have 

 made notes and sketches of prominent signs of suffering 

 in horses, and I have learnt that many of these are forcibly 

 enough expressed in peculiar attitudes, if we only take the 

 pains to read them. Fortunately, our patients never tell an 

 untruth, and, with all the failings of their kind, they do 

 not malinger ; whilst their tale of disablement and pain, 

 " though it hath no tongue, will speak with most mira- 

 culous organ." 



What I have seen, so have all old practitioners, and these 

 will recognise a true and unexaggerated presentment of 

 familiar cases, which may not be altogether uninteresting. 

 But utility can only serve the rising generation of 

 Veterinary Surgeons, who have not yet come across the 



