VI PREFACE. 



book will be found truthful, concise, to the point, 

 free from literary niceties or labored efforts; but 

 frowns upon the destructive and injurious system 

 of bleeding, blistering, physicking, firing, and low 

 feeding or starving animals suffering from disease 

 or accident. If this work, then, should enlighten 

 the minds of men to a full understanding of the 

 injurious teaching of old authors in new dresses, 

 and point out a sound, safe, scientific, and success- 

 ful system, the author will have been amply re- 

 paid for whatever time, trouble, and expense he 

 may have incurred in presenting it to the public. 

 The author thanks Mr. Jas. B. Rodgers for the 

 perspicuity of the letter press and manner in which 

 he has executed the work intrusted to him. 



Philadelphia, Septemher, 1866. 



