INTRODUCTION. Vll 



important distinction between spasmodic and flatulent colic. 

 It is also from the same sources, that we have been taught 

 many bowel complaints are the effect of strangulation, 

 introsusception, and hernial displacements. From these, 

 likewise, we now recognize the disease called molten grease 

 to be no mechanical melting of the animal fat, but a dysen- 

 teric attack on the mucous surface of the intestines. 



To what but anatomy and physiology do we owe our 

 present acquaintance with the diseases of the feet ? And if 

 the services we require of the animal are such as to prevent 

 our conquering all of them, we yet have greatly miti- 

 gated the sufferings of the animal. We now avoid torturing 

 the shoulder, as the seat of almost every lameness which 

 occurs. We are also enabled to relieve the horse from the 

 agony consequent upon navicular disease by neurotomy. 

 To an acquaintance with the anatomy of the eye it is that 

 we no longer attribute ophthalmia to an enlargement of the 

 haw. This knowledge has prevented us from cruelly de- 

 priving the horse of a necessary organ, as a remedy for an 

 imaginary disease. Have anatomy and physiology, there- 

 fore, taught us nothing ? 



The subject-matter of the Veterinary Outlines have 

 been divided into Four Natural Parts. The first of these 

 comprises what may be termed the collateral branches of 

 the art, as the history of the horse, &c, &c. 



The second division of the work is occupied by an anato- 

 mical description of the several parts of the body. 



The third division of the work is allotted to the practice 

 of the veterinary art, or to the curative treatment of each 

 disease. 



T\\e fourth division is dedicated to the Veterinary Materia 

 Medica, or the chemical and pharmaceutical nature of drugs. 



