XVlll TREFACE TO THE THIETEENTIl EDITION. 



appeared : n book that was much read, and passed through 

 many editions in a few 3'ears. A supplementary vohune was 

 afterwards ]")ublishcd. and a small pamphlet, named, not very 

 justly, " jNIultum in Parvo.*' 



In the year 1792, the Veterinary College was established, and 

 M. Saintbel, a French veterinarian, was appointed Professor. 

 He died about a year after. Saintbel was the person who disco- 

 vered that glanders may be communicated through the medium 

 of the stomach. A few years after his death, a quarto volume 

 appeared on veterinary subjects with his name to it, but it con- 

 tained nothing of importance. Tlie Professorship of the College 

 was afterwards filled by ]Mr. Coleman and Mr. jNIorecroft, jointly ; 

 but the latter soon gave it up for a more lucrative situation, as a 

 private practitioner in Oxford Street, in which he acquired the 

 highest reputation. In 1807, he was induced to go out to India, 

 to superintend the breeding stud of the East India Company. He 

 published a small but very useful book on Shoeing. I should 

 have noticed before a small book by INIr. Prosser, a surgeon, on 

 Strangles and Fever, in 1786. Mr. Prosser contends that the 

 strangles could be, with certainty and ad\antage, communicated 

 to colts by inoculation. In 1796, a quarto volume appeared on 

 the Economy of the Horse's Foot and Shoeing, by Mr. Freeman, 

 a gentleman much celebrated for his knowledge of horsemanship, 

 on which he afterwards published a large treatise. The former 

 work contains some good plates of the dirterent parts of the 

 horse's foot. About the year ISOO, Mr. Coleman published his 

 splendid work on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the 

 Horse's Foot, and Shoeing. This work contained many beau- 

 tiful and accurate plates of the horse's foot. There afterwards 

 appeared one volume of Veteriuaiy Transactions, and a pam- 

 phlet, describing an artificial frog, by the same author. About 

 this time two octavo volumes were published, entitled, "A Philo- 

 sophical Treatise on Horses," by Mr. John Lawrence. The first 

 volume merits particular notice : it contained a forcible appeal 

 to the feeling of the public iu support of the i-ights of Iiurses, 

 iiiid ought to be read by all horse proprietors. The other con- 

 tained much useful practical information; but, as Mr. Lawrence 

 was not a regular student of the veterinary profession, it of 

 course contained some errors, and is valuable chiefly as a com- 

 ]>ilation. In the year 1801, Mr. Pichard Lawrence published 

 a quarto volume on some of the diseases of the horse, with some 

 useful and accurate plates. This is a work of considerable 

 merit, and has been since published in one octavo volume. ]\Ir. 

 Blaine's work first appeared in 1S02 and 1803, in two volumes 

 octavo. It has since been published, however, in one octavo 

 volume. It is the onlv regular system of veterinary medicine 

 that has been attempted in tliis country; and, notwithstanding 



