PREFACE. VU 



for which purpose, I have frequently inserted cases, 

 where I thought they would illustrate the sub- 

 ject. 



In the plan of this work, I have first endeavoured 

 to describe the disease ; secondly, to point out 

 its cause. I next proceed to describe the symptoms, 

 beginning with the most simple, tracing them 

 in their progrefs to the most inveterate stages ; 

 and, lastly, to direct such medicines, diet, &c. as 

 I have ever found most effectual for their re- 

 moval. 



In the prescriptions, I have adopted the most 

 efficacious medicines ; and have likewise rendered 

 them lefs complex, without depriving them of any 

 part which I conceive might have been added with 

 advantage. This, to those gentlemen who choose 

 to depend on their own practice, will be a valuable 

 acquisition, as well as to the Veterinarian and Far- 

 rier. For amongst such a number of recipes pre- 

 sented to us by different authors, all warranted in- 

 fallible antidotes, we find it extremely difficult on 

 which to fix ; and, when the choice is made, find 

 ourselves often disappointed, though some of them 

 are said to have cost the publisher upwards of five 

 hundred pounds. 



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