PREFACE 



Being intimately associated with veterinary students, the author is 

 fully aware of the feelings of fear and mysticism with which they are 

 possessed when confronted with the ordeal of taking a State Board exam- 

 ination. Partly to dispel these fears, but more to provide a means of self- 

 quizzing, this work was undertaken. 



A large number of State Board questions from ten of the more repre- 

 sentative eastern and a few of the middle and western States have been 

 sorted over. Those contained herein represent what was left after elim- 

 inating hundreds of duplicates. The few duplications which remain serve 

 to illustrate the close relationship of the various subjects to one another. 

 The overlapping and the necessary process of elimination resulted in the 

 abbreviation of some subjects, especially Sanitary Science, Pathology and 

 Zootechnics, to a considerable degree. Many topics, considered elsewhere, 

 might rightly have been inserted under these headings. 



The author lays no claim to literary genius or bombastic propensities. 

 The aim has been to supply brief, accurate answers, and this has been 

 done many times at the expense of grammatical precision. 



The extensive library of the Veterinary School of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, being at my disposal, has been thoroughly perused and the 

 highest authorities on the different phases of veterinary science have been 

 carefully consulted and compared. It would be impossible to make 

 acknowledgment to all in the space allotted. 



To my colleagues, with whom it is a privilege to associate, and who have 

 endeared themselves by their valuable suggestions and advice, my heartfelt 

 thanks are due. 



It is the author's hope that this humble beginning will meet the 

 student's demands for a meaaas of self -interrogation in preparing for State 

 Board and Civil Service examinations. Incidentally, by reason of the 

 complete index, it may, in a measure, satisfy the need of a convenient, com- 

 plete, reliable reference book on veterinary science. To the end that 

 this may be accomplished, criticisms and suggestions will be cheerfully 



received. 



,„.,, V. G. Kimball. 



May, 1914. 



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