

PREFACE TO GERMAN EDITION 



The introduction of students of veterinary medicine to the 

 study of pathology, because of the lack up to the present time of 

 a German text book of general pathology adapted to diseases 

 of animals, has depended chiefly upon works written for the 

 practitioner of human medicine; the lectures of instructors in vet- 

 erinary medicine and students' notes, made with more or less 

 accuracy, supplying the necessary additions and explanations. 



Only one work, the Text Book of General Pathological Anat- 

 omy by Birch-Hirschfeld, has been amended from the standpoint 

 of our special branch of medicine, by the addition of veterinary- 

 medical paragraphs from the facile pen of Johne, so as to seem 

 adapted for students in veterinary schools ; but it is confined to 

 pathological anatomy, and the physiological and setiological fea- 

 tures, the manifestation of functional impairments, pathogenesis, 

 etc., require further reference to special works. 



As an introduction and foundation for appreciation of the 

 practice of veterinary medicine, to be studied, and put into applica- 

 tion in the latter portions of the college curriculum, after com- 

 pletion of the courses in anatomy, physiology and the natural 

 sciences, the student should be given a general idea of the mean- 

 ing of disease, the aetiology of diseases, of the make-up of our 

 medical knowledge and of the principles of classification, as well 

 as a general familiarity with the alterations in structure and func- 

 tion met in disease. It is for this reason that lectures on general 

 pathology are provided, introductory to the special applied 

 branches of study. The need of a work concisely comprehending 

 such features has determined me tO' undertake the task of pre- 

 paring a condensed outline of the fundamental facts of pathology 

 with special adaptations to the requirements of veterinarians. Of 

 course, it has been necessary to. make use of much material from 

 works intended for the student of human medicine, and I am 

 vividly reminded of the old sentence in the Latin grammar — "Plinius 



