vi Preface. 



soning, and cruel and injurious vivisections practiced under 

 the name of remedial measures are almost sickening to con- 

 template. To give the stock-owner such information as 

 will enable him to dispense with the unprofitable and peril- 

 ous services of such pretenders, and to apply rational means 

 of cure when he happens to be beyond the reach of the 

 accomplished veterinarian, is the aim of this book, and this, 

 it is confidently hoped, it will accomplish for all who will 

 intelligently study its pages. 



To secure this object, and yet to place the book within 

 the reach of all, it was necessary to sacrifice all extended 

 discussion of diseased processes, and questions in pathologj^ 

 and therefore the reader who may discover deviations from 

 current opinions is requested to suspend his decision until 

 he has consulted the Author's larger work, in which the 

 reasons for these positions will be given. 



With this view of still further condensing the work, the 

 doses of medicines for the different animals are rarely given 

 in the text, bnt one or more agents are named as applicable 

 to every distinct stage or phase of the disease and species of 

 patient, and the reader must turn to the list of drugs given 

 at the end to find the amount required for each animal. 

 In doing this he must note particularly for what purpose 

 the agent is given and select the dose accordingly', as the 

 effect of large doses is usually essentially different from that 

 of small ones. Thus common salt given in large doses to 

 cattle is purgative and reducing, while in small ones it is 

 alterative and tonic. Sulphur in large doses is laxative, bnt 

 in small ones alterative, expectorant, and diaphoretic. Oil 



