xii PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 



only to instruct the people as to the best modes of preventing disease, 

 but also to caution and guard them against the use, amongst their 

 stock, of advertised quack medicines, the composition of which they 

 know nothing. 



It is well known that persons are found who profess to know 

 something about diseases and the action of medicines, and when an 

 animal is found ailing such individuals make an attempt to cure. 

 Knowing from experience the often disastrous results from such 

 treatment, the author has, as first aids for some of the maladies, 

 recommended simple remedies, which, in practice, have been found 

 beneficial. 



Many of the ideas put forward are by no means generally 

 accepted, notably the writer's opinion of germs and their action 

 on the animal economy ; he still holds that certain hygienic con- 

 ditions and environments are required to render the body of the 

 animal favourable to the entrance and subsequent development of 

 these microbes. 



To make the text more plain, especially in the case of Parturition, 

 pen-and-ink illustrations (the work of amateurs) have been added. 



H. T. 



Beacon View, 



aspatria, 1895. 



