APOLOGETIC AND EXPLANATORY. 



The author of this work is fully conscious of some errors of 

 omission as well as commission to be found within its pages, 

 although he deems them of minor importance, when compared 

 with the really valuable and useful practical information it con- 

 tains, upon a much neglected but highly important branch of 

 veterinary science and art. It was intended that its pages 

 should have been enriched with first-class engravings illus- 

 trative of the doctrines and the practice taught. These, how- 

 ever, the exigencies of professional duties, and other circum- 

 stances, would not admit of being executed in a manner that 

 would be deemed satisfactory to the public, or the author, 

 within the limits of time at the latter's disposal. He trusts 

 that his desire for the issuance of his work during the most 

 momentous celebration of human progress of modern times, 

 may, to some extent, further excuse this omission, as well as 

 the reduction of the original price — Five Dollars with illustra- 

 tions, to Three Dollars without them. It is the author's 

 intention to fully complete his work in a future edition, and 

 to make it worthy in every respect of the age of enlightened 

 progress in which we live ; of the great epoch now being 

 celebrated ; of the Country, par excellence^ which as yet, has 

 exhibited the highest developement combined with the greatest 

 utilization of speed in the noblest of all animals, the Horse ; 

 and of the important proiessson to which he has the honor to 

 belong. 



