VETERINARY SURGERY. 



BOOK I. 



THE ORGANS AND FUNCTIONS OF LIFE DESCRIBED; 

 WHEREIN THE ORIGIN AND SEATS OF VARIOUS 

 DISEASES IN THE HORSE ARE EXPLAINED, WITH 

 A VIEW TO THEIR CURE OR MITIGATION. 



Introduction. — Teachers of the art — Duty of 

 dissecting ; its uses and advantages — Method 

 of study — Register of post-mortem examina- 

 tions ; — Application hereof to medical practice \ 



Of the several modes of teaching the Art of Far- 

 riery, the present popular style and manner stands 

 in need of the least preamble or apology, perhaps, 

 for introducing it to public notice, and asking for 

 it the public approbation in its present improved 

 form. The earliest consisted in certain dissections 

 of the Horse by human doctors, which they left the 

 generality of practitioners to study as best they 

 could, with very little aid in discriminating one dis- 

 ease from another, which accounts for the uncer- 

 tainty of their best medicines doing good. Secondly > 



