PREFACE. 



Aetbe many delays, arising almost entirely from engagements 

 of a professional character, I am at last enabled to present this 

 work to the public. 



It professes to be a plain practical treatise upon the 

 management of the Horse, and upon the diseases aud acci- 

 dents to which that noble animal is liable; together with 

 ample details of those modes of treatment which I have found 

 to be the most e£B.cient and rational hitherto recommended. 



This book has been written from a strong conviction that 

 it is wanted. A plain, useful work, upon Veterinary Hygiene 

 and the practice of Veterinary Medicine — one that should be 

 scientific, without any parade of science on the part of its 

 author — one that should be in accordance with the advanced 

 spirit of scientific research so characteristic of the age, — has 

 long been required. If, therefore, the present volume does not 

 meet this want, its deficiencies wiH not arise fi:om any lack 

 of industry on the part of the author, but rather from his 

 inability to understand, or his want of power to supply, what 

 is so essentially necessary. 



