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 described in a majiner nerer yet attempted : it will be 

 a complete dictionary of symptoms, and so conducted 

 as not only to describe in full every discovery I have 

 made, but fully to enable every person to discover 

 the disease of their own dog, and as successfully to 

 combat it as mvself. 



As I am the first person in this country who has 

 paid any attention to the diseases of dogs on scientific 

 principles, it will be considered as little less than a Her- 

 culean task to have brought a knowledge of their nu- 

 merous complairsts to the perfection it has been ; and 

 when it is considered that not a line has ever been 

 written on the subject that could give a single hint 

 worth notice, the following pages will be viewed as a 

 proof of industry and faithful attention to an im- 

 portant subject. 



Having been educated as a medical man, and by 

 the liberality of my relations having been enabled to 

 embrace all the advantages that an attendance on 

 numerous lectures, and a considerable residence at 

 one of the first hospitals in London, could afford ; 

 and havir.g afterwards practised with some success as 

 a surgccn, both privately and in the army, it greatly 

 offend'^d ir.y relations, as well as surprised my friends 

 and acquaintance, that I should stoop, as they con- 

 sidered it, to study and practise oa the diseases of 

 animals: but, above all, my attention to the diseases 

 of dogs has given offence to some, and occasioned sur- 

 prise in others. Till the establishment of the Vete- 

 rinary College, and the practice of the veterinary art 

 by men of education and respectability, farriery was 

 deemed a low and servile pursuit ; but at present, by 

 a retrograde step towards enlarged reasoning, it has be- 



