Tl PREFACE. 



j\[r. Darvill has published a work on the Race Horse, which 

 exhibits much practical knowledge, and communicates useful 

 information. 



There arc a few other minor authors, some of whom are 

 justly entitled to merit; and there are others whose works we 

 could not notice without expressing censure. 



It remains but to add that since the last edition of this work 

 was published, the rnthless destroyer, Death, hath summoned 

 away Mr. Coleman, who for nearly half a century had held the 

 office of senior Professor at the Veterinary College. In his 

 earlier career he was a diligent inquirer after truth, and a 

 zealous friend of veterinary science. His mantle has fallen on 

 Professor Sewell, so many years associated with him, whilst the 

 sub-professorship is deservedly bestowed on Mr. C. Spooner, 

 and Mr. Morton has more recently been appointed Professor of 

 Chemistry.* From the extensive ex])erience and intuitive know- 

 ledge of the first gentleman, the talents and scientific acquire- 

 ments of the second, and the active and zealous genius of the 

 third, much is expected towards the future })rogress of vete- 

 rinary science, and much will undoubtedly be obtained. 



Southampton, December 2711], 1841. 



POSTSCEIPT 



TO 



THE EIGHTEENTH EDITION. 



The very complete revision which this work underwent In 

 1841, when it was in fact re-arranged, and for the most part 

 re-written, precludes the necessity of a very extensive modifi- 

 cation on the present occasion. It has, however, undergone a 

 careful revision, and it will, it is hoped, maintain the prominent 

 position in ])ublic esteem which it has so long enjoyed. So far 

 as it goes, it may be relied on as a trulij practical work, founded 

 as it is on facts accumulated, and observations made, both by 

 the Author and the Editor during many years of active pro- 

 fessional occupation. It may be well to observe that the original 

 matter contributed by the latter is inserted within brackets, 

 and is signed Ed. 



Eling, Southampton, October 18th, 1851. 



* Mr. Simonds has since been appointed to tlie oflice of Professor of 

 Cattle rath(jh)gy, &c., the study of which is encouraged by a grant from the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England. — Ed. 



