PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITIOM'. 



Tde author of this work was astonished the other day to receive 

 notice from the publishers to prepare another edition, accompanied 

 with a, gentle hint to try and make the book "thicker." This of 

 course it would be easy to do, but by that operation the reader 

 would gain nothing, for the book, in undergoing the "thickening" 

 process, would contain the same substance in only double the words. 

 Fortunately, however, for botli reader and publisher, he happened 

 on a new work on Dogs in general, and as it is from the hands of a 

 most experienced Veterinarian, whose opportunities are far more 

 extensive than his own for the study of Canine Pathology, it were 

 only right in him to " thicken" a little with what bears the impress 

 of talent, in preference to the lucubrations of a not very brilliant 

 brain. 



To the critics of the Press the author begs his thanks for their 

 good behavior, influenced probably by the insignificance of the 



work. To the public, for their gullibility in buying so much 



— gentle reader, fill Ihe blank. He trusts that the emended and 

 improved form of this edition will please. ' 



Edward Mayliew's " Dogs an-d Tueir Management" is given entire 

 and unaltered, and "DixKs" feels gratified to travel in such distin- 

 guished company, for now "the poor dog" is well "treated" in 

 hospital. 



" Dinks." 



^mhtrstlmrgh^ Cntwita Weal, 



