PREFACE. 



The total absence in the English language of a work on 

 the Clinical Diagnosis of Lameness in the Horse, induced 

 me to gather material from all obtainable works, American^ 

 English, and especiallj^ German, to supplement my lectures ; 

 this little work therefore is primarily a compilation. The 

 treatment of this subject is so scattered and not fully dis- 

 cussed in any particular work on Surgery, that an expensive 

 and voluminous library at once becomes necessary to study 

 this important branch of Surgery. The extreme courtesy of 

 the eminent surgeon, Professor Doctor H. Moller, Berlin, 

 Germany, has made it possible for me to issue this contribu- 

 tion toward Veterinai'y Surgery, since he most kindly per- 

 mitted me to use his various excellent works. This little 

 effort is a resume, embodying mainly the teachings of 

 Professor Doctor Moller, arranged, as I hope, in a practical 

 manner. 



To the different chapters, short anatomical sketches and 

 drawings, as well as important anatomo-physiological laws, 

 have been added. This compendium is chiefly intended for 

 the student, to give him a concise treatise on the symptoms 

 accompanying the various forms of lameness, the differential 

 diagnosis wherever an error is liable to be made, and recog- 

 nized practical methods of examination to aid him in the 

 detection of the seat of the lameness. The practitioner 

 may possibly find some points of interest in this little work 

 in his moments of leisure. 



