PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



The first edition of this worlv came from the press during the latter part 

 of 1914. The entire edition, twenty-five hundred copies, was exhausted 

 more than a year ago. Thanlvs are due, and are now extended to tlie veteri- 

 nary profession of America and of all other English speaking countries for 

 the hearty reception accorded it. Apologies are offered for several typo- 

 graphical errors which appeared in that edition in spite of our best efforts 

 to avoid them. We console ourselves with the belief that the initial issue 

 of most other professional publications — some even by experienced authors 

 — contain their proportion of errors, and that most of our readers were 

 charitable enough to overlook them. 



It will be observed that this second edition contains considerable new mat- 

 ter and some new and better illustrations, which we trust will improve and 

 make the text more instructive. 



The author, without assistance, financed and published the first edition, 

 but in the face of present post-world-war, unsettled conditions, he has hesi- 

 tated, for more than a year, to undertake the publication of a new edition. 

 However, without solicitation from any source — except, perhaps, from 

 prospective purchasers — The American Veterinarij Publishing Company 

 generously offered to shoulder full financial responsibility for a second edi- 

 tion of "Animal Castration". This offer was made notwithstanding that 

 the price of every item of expense incident to book jjublication is greatly 

 inflated and all out of proportion to prices of normal times. If this publi- 

 cation is valuable to the profession or to individuals comprising the pro- 

 fession, credit for its appearance at this time is due the publisher. 



G. E. W. 



Nashville, Tennessee, 

 June, 1920. 



