PREFACE TO PART II 



Owing to the greater surgical importance of the Hmbs in veterinary 

 practice, consecutive treatment has been dealt with a little more fully 

 in this volume than in Part I., otherwise precisely similar lines have been 

 followed. 



To the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool the author 

 desires again to express his gratitude for the ever-ready advice and kindly 

 help, of which it has been the author's good fortune to avail himself. 



The onerous task of revising and correcting the proofs has been 

 kindly undertaken by the author's friend and former colleague, Professor 

 Macqueen, many of whose views upon matters appertaining to the purely 

 surgical part of the work have been adopted. Although these have been 

 frequently acknowledged throughout this volume and were referred to in 

 the General Preface to Part I., the author feels it his duty to make 

 reference to them here, for to have had the collaboration of one with the 

 ripe experience of Professor Macqueen cannot fail to add materially to 

 the practical value of the work. 



The kind reception accorded the first volume by the majority of the 

 critics and by practitioners generally in this country, and especially by 

 his fellow veterinarians in France and America has been most gratifying 

 to the author, and has convinced him that his opinion of the necessity 

 which existed for a work of the kind, as expressed in the Preface to 

 Part I., was well founded. 



It was pointedly remarked by one esteemed reviewer, presumably a 

 member of our sister profession, that "since 1832, when William 



