PREFACE. 



This work has been prepared with a desire to jiresent in a concise 

 form a practical manual of the diseases and injuries of the horse, and 

 their treatment, for the use of practitioners of medicine and other in- 

 telligent horse owners. The professional veterinarian already has at 

 his command several large and excellent treatises. These, however, de- 

 vote considerable space to the consideration of subjects familiar to the 

 student of medicine, and unnecessary to the non-professional reader. 

 Physiology and pathology are, therefore, seldom referred to in the pres- 

 ent work. 



OriginaHty is not claimed for this hand-book, although many prac- 

 tical ideas, the result of sixteen years' experience in the ownership and 

 consequent care of horses have been incorporated in its pages. It would 

 have been a more agreeable task to rewrite it entirely, but the time re- 

 quisite for such an undertaking was not available, and it has been neces- 

 sary to make free use of the work of others. 



The recent treatise of General Fitzwygram on Horses and Stables 

 has been taken as a basis, and quoted from verbatim to a large extent. 

 Similar copious extracts have been made from the works of Prof. Wil- 

 liams on Yeterinary Medicine and Surgery, and from the still later trea- 

 tise on Equine Medicine by Prof. Wm. Robinson. 



The editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness also to the 

 works of Percivall, Gamgee, Hayes, Youatt, Mayhew, Dun, Walsh, 

 Blain, Tuson, Armitage and others, to the Yeterinary Journal^ to 

 D'Arboval's Dictionnaire de Medecine Yeterinaire, etc., all of which 

 have been freely drawn from, especially for methods of treatment. 



The compiler is conscious that there are many imperfections in his 

 work, but believes, nevertheless, that it will b3 found better fitted for 

 the purpose for which it has been prepared than any heretofore pub- 

 lished. 



New York, November 1st, 1883. 



