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The alphabetical arrangement of the former edition has 

 been objected to by the professional critic, as not snflRciently 

 scholastic for the reputation of a teacher of medicine. It was 

 then, as it is now, my anxious wish to make the Canine 

 Pathology extensively useful, and a work of general refer- 

 ence among: the diversified classes whose interest, or amuse- 

 ment, may connect them with dogs. A nosological arrange- 

 ment of diseases, expressed in appropriate terms of art, would 

 undoubtedly have given to the whole an appearance of 

 greater medical erudition ; and had 1 written solely with a 

 view to professional fame, or had I intended the work for 

 the exclusive reading of those who had been medically edu- 

 cated, 1 should certainly, both in the language and arrange- 

 ment of it, have differed from my present mode, although 

 the substance would have been still the same. But as the 

 professional reader will not find the instructions contained in 

 it less efficacious for being divested of medical technicalities, 

 and as the unprofessional one will much more readily com- 

 prehend them in their present form, so I hope I shall stand 

 excused by all parties for having continued in the most plain 

 and simple track of alphabetical arrangement; which, al- 

 though it precludes systematic display, yet greatly increases 

 the facility of reference. For this reason, likewise, I have 

 made the Pathology not only a catalogue of diseases, but of 

 symptoms also ; by which means those unaccustomed to 

 professional reading may ascertain the existing disease by 

 the leading feature or symptom of it. In compliance, how- 

 ever, with medical taste, I have, in this edition, given the 

 prescriptions in the chemical or pharmaceutical terms, sub- 

 joining however, as before, the popular and long received 

 names of the various medicaments in use. 



I hope that some dependance may be placed on the curative 

 plans detailed ; they are the result of twenty years* extensive 

 practice, in each year of which I have examined from two to 

 three thousand sick dogs. The different ailments, as they 

 occurred, were diligently attended to ; the operations of the 

 various remedies used were carefully observed ; and the ge- 



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