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 These Powders are composed of substances unknown 

 to any human being but myself, and form one of 

 the most valuable discoveries that medicme has been 

 benefited by of late years. 



HAVING now finished this Treatise, I must claim 

 the reader's indulgence for numerous inaccuracies 

 that will be found in it, and for a general and con- 

 siderable looseness in the style and manner. The 

 matter, I believe, is correct, and the result of nearly 

 tweutv years' experience, twelve of which have been 

 principally devoted to animals ; but, from extensive 

 ;ind constant calls on my time, it is with the utmost 

 difficulty that I have been able to snatch an hour now 

 and then to commit the subjects of the foregoing 

 sheets to paper, which have always been sent to the 

 press without being re-written, and with only the 

 correction of once reading over. The subject has 

 been now much more fully treated than in the former 

 edition ; but I huve not written one quarter of what I 

 would have wished, nor treated on one half of the vari- 

 ous lesser complaints that daily fall under my notice. 



At a future time, when my health may require 

 retirement, and I am enabled to leave souse one 

 adequate to the medical treatment of dogs, I will 

 then write a voluminous treatise on the subject, ia 

 which I 'v\ili describe every thing I know, and give 

 the formulae of every rriedicine I use, with such 

 ample directions as shall enable every one to prac- 

 tise on their own dogs as successfully as myself; and 

 with such a peculiar tabic of symptoms, methodised 



