PREFACE. 



The frequent inquiries from farmers and stock-raisers through- 

 out the cov.ntr}^, and their inability to procure professional aid, 

 suggested to the author the need of a reliable work of this kind. 

 In attempting to supply this want he has brought to the work the 

 training and labor of years spent in practice, in the laboratory, 

 the dissecting room, and hospital ward. 



It is the aim of this volume to impart such information as will 

 enable the non-professional reader not only to preserve the 

 health of his stock, but also to know what remedies should be 

 employed for their common ailments. It clearly explains how 

 to breed according to physiological laws, how to rear animals 

 under hygienic principles, and how to manage horses. An 

 earnest effort has been made to present in the plainest possible 

 way the nature, cause, symptoms, and treatment of each disease 

 in the form in which it most frequently occurs. The various 

 conditions requiring surgical interference and the surgical opera- 

 tions to be performed in such cases are briefly described, and 

 wherever possible the reader is informed whether the indications 

 for operation arc favorable or otherwise, and whether the opera- 

 tion requires the serv'ice of a professional surgeon. 



It is claimed that, so far as anatomical and physiological 

 problems are concerned, this A'okmie is rigidly scientific, em- 

 bracing all modern discoveries, so far as they come within the 

 scope of its plan and purpose. Its style, arrangement, and ap- 

 plication are, however, addressed to the popular rather than the 

 professional reader. Its object is to give popular instruction on 

 those subjects which have hitherto been to most people a sealed 

 book. 



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