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 Sport/man will here have his attention engaged by a 

 fubjed not before treated on,™the difeafes of the 

 Dog; and which, though defcribed in a concife 

 manner, yet, as connefted with the whole, will be 

 found to prove fatisfadory. Frofejfors of human medi- 

 cine are here offered a farther extenfion of their phy- 

 fiological knowledge, by the opportunity of becoming 

 more intimately acquainted with the ftrudure, func- 

 tions, and oeconomy of domeftic animals ; and, by 

 the application here made of the general principles 

 of the healing art to the cure of their difeafes, they 

 become enabled to give that advice, in cafes of emer* 

 gency, thereon, which is often required, but feldom 

 obtained ; for analogy, undireded, totally fails. Ve- 

 terinarians and Farriers may here learn the art they 

 profefs fundamentally, and from its proper bafe ; by 

 which, being taught to reafon, to think, and to 

 draw conclufions from well grounded principles, they 

 will baniili the receipts and prefcriptions of their 

 anceftors, and have within themfelves the means of 

 fuf^aefting whatever any cafe may require: from 

 whence it may be hoped that this art, fo long buried 

 in oblivion, will gradually rife to that eminence and 

 refpedabiUty which its utility demands. 



To form a progreflive arrangement of its fubjeds, 

 the Work is divided into three parts. 



Part I. is appropriated to the collateral branches 

 of the veterinary art, commencing with, the hiflory 



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