PR] : FACE. 



A knowledge of patliology is essential to practitioners and 

 to students of medicine. The general considerations of i)athol- 

 ogy, whether in reference to diseases of the human m- diseases 

 of domestic animals, are practically identical. Many textjjook^ 

 on this subject are available, but they are especially written fo*i 

 the practitioner and student of human medicme, and the illus- 

 trations and examples are all in reference to diseases of the 

 human. Such textbooks have been used l)y the authijr for sev- 

 eral years in veterinary classes and it was thought that if tht 

 same general pathological principles could be exemplified bj 

 cases and illustrations in veterinary medicine, the suljject mat- 

 ter would be more readily understood by the veterinary student 

 1 his explains the issuance of the present volume. 



The writer has endeavored to place every phase of pathol- 

 ogy from the veterinarian's point of view. The entire subjeQ'- 

 matter has been expressed as far as possible in connnon e\ er^- 

 day language, with the hope that all readers will ha\e no trou- 

 ble in grasping the pathologic facts. An extensive glossarA- has 

 been appended and will be of considera1)le aid because ])racti- 

 cally every technical term, \yith its analysis and definition, will 

 be found therein. 



The author is greatly indebted to Dr. S. Stewart, Dean of 

 the Ivansas City X'eterinary College; Dr. D. M. Campliell, edi- 

 tor of The American Journal of Veterinary jMedicine; Prof. W. 

 E. King, Bacteriologist of the Kansas State Agricultural College; 

 Dr. F. J. Hall, Chief of the Food Inspection I3epartment Ivan- 

 sas City, Mo., and formerly pathologist of the ^Medical Depart- 

 ment University of Kansas ; Dr. L. Rosenwald, formerh- patholo- 

 gist of the Kansas City Veterinary College; Dr. Geo. F. I'.abb,. 

 ]\Iilk Inspector of the city of Topeka, Kansas; Dr. D: Cham- 

 plain, editor of The Milk-Man, for suggestions made by them 

 concerning the text matter. Also Dr. R. F. Bourne, ph}'siologist 

 of the Kansas City Veterinary College ; Dr. C. D. Folse, City 

 Milk and Meat Inspector of Marshall, Texas, and Mr. Chas. Sals- 

 berv, microscopic laboratory assistant in the Kansas City \'et- 

 erinary College, for their assistance in the preparation of the 

 illustrations. 



The author consulted various text-books, journals and other 

 publications while preparing the text for which acknowledge- 

 ment is hereby made. 



If this book supplies the practitioner and the student of 

 veterinary medicine with clear, concise statements of veterinary 

 pathology, the purpose of the book has been fulfilled. 



A. T. K. 



