PREFACE 



Apart from Colonel Nunn's work, there is no special text- 

 book of veterinary toxicology in English. The suggestion 

 of the need of some such comprehensive work has reached 

 me from several quarters, and many offers of help have 

 encouraged me to compile the present volume. I have 

 endeavoured to base the accounts of each poison on records 

 published in the veterinary literature or encountered in 

 my own practice. Failing them, I have had recourse to 

 the standard textbooks and the experience of veterinary 

 friends. 



The list of my indebtedness is therefore heavy. I 

 acknowledge, with cordial pleasure, Mr. Wallis Hoare's 

 perusal of my manuscript, and the many valuable original 

 observations of a practised clinician arising therefrom. 

 Major-General Smith has responded freely and promptly 

 with his advice, and has drawn my attention to recondite 

 sources of knowledge, particularly as regards the East. 

 He has, moreover, freely placed at my disposal the 

 excellent plant illustrations in his work on hygiene. To 

 Professor Woodruff I am indebted for a critical perusal of 

 the Introduction, and for the whole of the section on treat- 

 ment. Professor Macqueen's help has been invaluable. 

 He placed his library and his unique knowledge of the 

 literature at my disposal, and also gave me the benefit of 

 his experience and of his acute critical faculty. 



I am under obligation also to all those gentlemen who, 

 from time to time during the last nine years, have brought 



