4 PREFACE. 
being aware that it was tardily adopted only because human 
clinical methods are not generally applicable in veterinary 
surgery. 
As assistant in the Royal Veterinary High School, under the 
guidance of PROFESSOR MOELLER, I have for two years 
had ample opportunity to do practical antisepsis ; then through 
the kindness of DR. HILDEBRANDT, director of the local 
hospital, I was offered abundant material on which to study all 
the details of antisepsis. I herewith express my sincere thanks 
to both these gentlemen. 
Thus prepared, I adopted the antiseptic treatment of wounds 
in my private practice, and have laid down my experiences 
in this book. 
In judging this work I beg to state that the few pointers, 
which are to be fourid in the current literature, are hardly’ 
sufficient to elucidate the antiseptic method of treating wounds, 
and that the works on human surgery on this subject could not 
very well be used, as veterinary science has to figure with 
entirely different conditions. I have therefore endeavored to 
make only clearly practical statements and to employ scientific. 
explanations only, as far as they are necessary to render the 
subject comprehensible. I am well aware that this work is not 
complete, but should it be an incentive in causing the antiseptic 
treatment of wounds to be more universally adopted, and in 
inducing a more elaborate working out of the same for our 
purposes, I shall be satisfied. 
FRICK, HETTSEDT, GERMANY. 
