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PREFACE. 



Good news for the horse; joy and long life to him. Time at length 

 has produced the discovery of an infallible remedy for the cure of 

 Farcy and Glanders. 



The anatomy of the horse is so little understood by a majority of 

 those who have to care for and do with him, that the phrases used by 

 most writers to designate the different parts thereof, or even a gland 

 or muscle,* are as foreign to their purpose as it would be to call them 

 Anno Domini; for they scarcely know whether they are reading 

 about the horse or an Egyptian mummy. And in fact nothing short 

 of a collegiate education, or a full course of lectures on the subject, 

 will enable a person to comprehend the use of medicines by their 

 names, any more than they can see the muscles by looking on a por- 

 trait painting of a Raphael, or feel the warm breath of a sculptured 

 marble of a Powers, or of a Michael Angelo. 



In this little book I have endeavored to call things by their right 

 names, and carefully avoided the use of all technical terms without 

 giving their meaning. And I have so arranged the work and its 

 index, that one has only to turn to any particular disease he may 

 wish to look at to find the symptoms plainly laid down and the means 

 of cure given, without reading the whole book to find what he wants 

 to know. 



* What, for instance, does the farmer understand by schirrus (an indurated 

 gland), metacarpal, os suffraginis, sessamoid, cs coranae, os navicnlare, and os 

 pedis, with the metatarsals, &c. (names of bones), unguintum hydrargyri fortis 

 (blue ointment), semi-membrenosis (a muscle of the leg), aorta motica magna 

 (an artery), extensor carpiverdealis longior (a muscle). 



