INTRODUCTION. 



Jit is now some years since the First 

 Edition of this Domestic Treatise on the 

 DiSKASES OF Dogs made its appearance; since that 

 time it has passed through several large editions, but 

 to which no alteration or addition M'as made, partly 

 from a want of time and opportunity, but principally 

 because it was intended to separate the Treatise on 

 Horses from that on Dogs. But though this has not 

 been deemed expedient i i this insttiiice, yet it will 

 be found that the present work is enlarged beyond all 

 comparison, and rendered infinitely more complete 

 than the former work. Many years' very extensive 

 practice have eiai:jsed siiice the first appearance of the 

 former. In no vear have I seen and examined less 

 than from tv, o to tlnee thousand sick dogs ; and as, 

 in every instance wliere it was in my power, the dis- 

 ease has been followed up to its termination, tlie effects 

 of the various remedies tried and noted, and every al- 

 teration in the complaint minutely attended to, so it 

 must naturally be supposed that the remarks resulting 

 from such a practice must be curious, and, to the 

 lovers of dogs, not uninteresting : nevertheless, at a 

 future time, 1 contemplate a. very full and complete 

 work on this suljject, though the completion of it 

 will probably be deferred for some years. I propose 

 that work to be a complete detail of medical practice, 



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