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with justice call a monument of fame, if only by the impress he has 

 made on the veterinary science of his day. 



The great encouragement we have hitherto received from the 

 press, and the large sale of our previous works, have been to us at 

 once most gratifying rewards for labours achieved, and at the same 

 time have furnished us with a most wholesome stimulus for renewed 

 application. The need of and consequent demand for such a handbook 

 as the present one have been abundantly testified in numerous ways. 



^^^ith regard, however, to the way in which this particular work came 

 to be written, we may say that althougli we had intended to bring 

 out before long a book of this character, still we should in all 

 probability certainly not have carried out our intention so rapidly, had 

 it not been for the enlightened and most kind courtesy- of the Editor 

 and Proprietors of T/ie Yorkshire Post ^^'e hope that the 

 readers of that well-known and justly esteemed paper will have 

 derived as much advantage as we ourselves have done. Were it only 

 for the exigencies of providing ^'- cop\\' a most wholesome, if at times a 

 very inconvenient stimulus to a writer, we ought to acknowledge the 

 benefits we have derived from our connection with this widely circulating 

 paper. The advantages, however, are by no means confined to this 

 necessity, and we can only say that we hope the good accruing has been 

 shared by all others as well and as much as by ourselves. 



In view of the large amount of errors prevalent regarding the 

 diseases of the horse, and the very great detriment often accruing in 

 consequence, we do not apologise for again intruding on the public, 

 inasmuch as our eftbrts hitherto have met with the approving 

 commendation of many of those justly entitled to form an opinion as to 

 the merits of our work. When the fav. irable remarks of the general 

 public, to whom we also appeal, were added, we no longer feared that 

 this, our latest production, would meet with a reception no less 

 favourable than that of its predecessors. The number of letters we have 



