PREFACE 
SrimubatTeD by the reception accorded my ‘Common Colics 
of the Horse,’ both in this country and in America, and 
assured by my publishers that a work on diseases of the 
foot was needed, I have been led to give to the veterinary 
profession the present volume. 
While keeping the size of the book within reasonable 
limits, no effort has been spared to render it as complete 
as possible. This has only been achieved by adding to my 
own experience a great deal of the work of others. To 
mention individually those who have given me permission 
to use their writings would be too long a matter here. 
In every case, however, where the quotation is of any 
length, the source of my information is given, either in the 
text or in an accompanying footnote. A few there are 
who will, perhaps, find themselves quoted without my 
having first obtained their permission to do so. They, 
with the others, will, I am sure, accept my hearty thanks. 
The publishers have been generous in the matter of 
illustrations and diagrams, and although to the older 
practitioner some of these may appear superfluous, it is 
hoped they will serve to render the work an acceptable text- 
book for the student. 
H. CAULTON REEKS. 
SPALDING, 
January, 1906. 
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