IV PREFACE. 



the welfare of their stock, there are but few persons in 

 this country conversant with the theory and practice of 

 veterinary medicine, in its application to cattle ; and 

 my object in writing this work is, to supply, to the best 

 of my ability, a deficiency which all husbandmen have 

 had occasion to lament. 



This work is intended for men who are not expected 

 to understand Latin ; therefore, I have deviated from 

 the accustomed mode of using the same, in all cases 

 where it could be dispensed with ; and knowing that 

 most, if not all of my readers, will consult these pages 

 more for practical than theoretical information, I have 

 endeavored to be as practical as possible, and have 

 given the reader the benefits of my past experience in 

 as brief a manner as the various subjects can be pre- 

 sented. 



The great superiority of the methods of treatment 

 offered in the following pages is (in my opinion), to 

 the candid mind, self-evident, and must eventually 

 supercede the popular, yet false, theory which teaches 

 that blood-letting and poisons cure disease. Blood-let- 

 ting and poisons, which destroy health, can never be 

 made to restore it, and in the course of many years, 

 practice I have established these propositions in my 

 own mind, beyond the shadow of a doubt. I now 

 have more faith in the recuperative powers of nature, 

 and in the exhibition of sanative agents, than in false 

 theories of art, or the destructive agents so highly re- 

 commended and extensively used by those professing 



