Preface, 



The work which follows was written, as the title-page shews, by 

 the late Mr. Charles Gresswell, M.R.C.V.S., and it is now offered to 

 the public for the first time, at the request of the widow, residing 

 at Mill Valley, Marin Co., California, U.S.A., some little distance 

 from San Francisco, the scene of the recent disastrous earthquake. 

 The ciiief point aimed at by tlie author, \\ho wrote most of tiie book 

 at San Francisco, was to produce a practical guide to the treatment of 

 the ordinarily-met-with ailments of the horse. Unfortunately he died 

 at Denver before being able to find time, amid multifarious duties, to 

 carry the work to completion. However, what was requisite has been 

 done, and the work arranged for the Press. Although this posthumous 

 production has, owing to his untimely decease, not been subjected to 

 final revision by the author, whose labour of love it was, it is still w ith 

 pleasure that we are placing it completed before the public, and so 

 fulfilling his purpose. 



George Gresswell. 

 Kelsey House, Louth, Lincolnshire, 

 October i8lh, 1906. 



