« INTRODUCTION. 



partments, necessarily depending upon the aid of standard authori- 

 ties. Then, there was no one man in the country whose time could 

 be made available for the purpose, even at a high compensation. 



In this emergency, and advised by veterinary friends, I deter- 

 mined upon the following plan, as tliat giving promise of the best 

 and most satisfactory results : First, to obtain all the standard vet- 

 erinary authorities in the English and European languages, espe- 

 cially those in German and French, embodying the highest and 

 most reliable authorities on the subjects treated ; next, the employ- 

 ing of thoroughly trained scholars capable of translating and col- 

 lecting the requisite facts from such authorities, and under my 

 special directions write them out in the plainest language for the 

 treatment of each disease ; and the matter so prepared,, on each sub- 

 ject, to be submitted to one or more experts for each department, 

 with instructions to make such changes and additions as in their 

 judgment would be advisable to render the matter of the best prac- 

 tical reference. To do this work I employed three of the best 

 scholars to be obtained in the country, one of whom was a regular 

 graduate of one of our leading medical colleges. This work re- 

 quired of itself nearly a year's time. 



In the meantime I consulted special friends in the veterinary 

 profession to learn who were the best expert practitioners to make 

 the revisions and corrections I required, and was so fortunate as to 

 secure the aid of .the gentlemen whose names are here given, and 

 who co-operated with me in the most hearty manner. 



LIST OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS. 



JAS. HAMILL, D. V. S., 416 E. 14th St. New York City, formerly Lecturer on 

 Shoeing and diseases of the Foot in Col. Vet. Col*, Pres't Nat'l Vet'y Med. Ass'n, now 

 Prof, of Oper. Surg'y and Horse Shoeing,, N. Y. Col. of Vet. Sur. and Sch. of Com. Med. 



CHAS. A. MEYER,* D. V. S., Editor Veterinary Gazette, New York. 



JOHN A. MCLAUGHLIN, D. V. S., Providence, R.I., ex- Veterinary In ; 

 spector N. J. State Board of Health. 



D. G. SUTHERLAND, V. S., East Saginaw, Mich., ex-Pres't Mich. State 

 Vet'y Ass'n. 



PAUL PAQUIN, M. D., V. S., Columbia, Mo., Prof. Compar. Med., Direct. Ex- 

 per. Labratory, State Vet'y Inspector, and Pres't Mo. Ass'n of Vet'y Science and Compar. 

 Medicine. 



T. BENT COTTON, M. D., V. S., Mt. Vernon, O., Pres't Ohio State Vet'y 

 Ass'n, Vice-Pres't Nat'l Vet'y Med. Ass'n. 



DR. B. C. McBETH, Battle Creek, Mich., Sec'y Mich. State Vet'y Ass'n, Hon. 

 Mem. N. Y. St. Acad, of Science and Com. Path. 



J. A. DELL, V. S., Ann Arbor, Mich., Pres't Mich. State Vet'y Ass'n. 



A. J. CHANDLER, V. S., Detroit, Mich., Vice-Pres't Mich. State Vet'y Ass'n. 



S. BRENTON, V. S., Jackson, Mich., Ex-Pres't Mich. State Vet'y Ass'n. 



WM. JOPLING, V. S., Owosso, Mich., Treasurer Mich. State Vet'y Ass'n. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, O., author of "A B C of Bee Culture." 



JOHN A. ADAMS, Horticulturist, Battle Creek, Mich. 



'Deceased while this was being put in type. 



