PREFACE. 
“Dogs: Their Management and Treatment in Disease’? was my first literary 
effort; hence its many crudities and glaring typographical imperfections. And 
although kindly received by dog fanciers in every English-speaking country, and 
translated in several others, I have never been satisfied with it, and determined to 
rewrite it my first opportunity. That did not present itself until 1898. Beginning 
the work then, I devoted four whole years to it, and had nearly reached the end, 
when I experienced a series of misfortunes which prevented further progress for 
many months. 
In attempting to popularize medicine — for the guidance of non-professionals 
—a common fault seems to be failure to particularize, and thus leave far too much 
to conjecture. In endeavoring to obviate this I may have gone over the line, and 
indulged in what might seem to some to be needless repetition. But if so, no real 
harm can have been done ; and in the matter of doses, especially, my readers can 
scarcely go wrong. 
There are no specifics in canine practice. That is, no medicines which are 
sure cures, always, for the same diseases. Indeed, in many instances, a medicine 
which has cured a large number of cases may prove valueless in the next case, 
although it might seem precisely like the others. Again, oftentimes cures can be 
effected only in stages, as it were. That is, one class of drugs will accomplish a cer- 
tain amount of good, and no more, and another class must be employed to secure 
greater gain. And so on; it being necessary often tc resort to quite a large 
number of medicinal agents of radically different action before cures can be 
reached. Manifestly, therefore, he who undertakes to treat obstinate diseases 
especially should be fortified with as large a number of remedies as possible, that 
he may promptly substitute for it if one proves disappointing. This accounts for 
the different measures of treatment that I have recommended in so many instances, 
and always where difficulty is likely to be encountered. 
Although about all the diseases from which dogs are likely to suffer are dis- 
cussed herein, also the treatment required, it must not be implied that fanciers 
