PREFACE. 



In writing these pages the author has endeavored to give a 

 short, accurate, and clear definition of the modern knowledge of 

 diseases of the dog, and to adapt his treatise to the requirements 

 of the profession. 



Speculations and hypotheses have been studiously avoided, while, 

 on (he other hand, plain facts have received careful consideration. 



Diagnosis has been given the most prominent place, as it deserves 

 in a work of this kind, and the author has endeavored to establish 

 the symptoms with their relation to the disease and to confine their 

 therapeutic treatment to a knowledge of normal and pathological 

 anatomy and physiology, for he believes that it is on a clear and 

 accurate knowledge of the normal and pathological structure of 

 life the fundamental base of all clinical science lies. 



The writer has also included some selected formulae which he 

 considers of practical value to the reader. 



Due consideration has been given to modern literature whenever 

 it appeared consistent, and a glance at the contents will also show 

 that the author has added the results of his own researches and 

 observations. These have been derived from his experience as 

 director of the clinic of small animals in this locality. 



His space has been somewhat restricted, and he has had to dis- 

 pense with the details of the bibliography of our literature, but 

 this is not of much consequence when we have such works as 

 Friedberger and Frohner's, Hoffmann's, Yogel's, and others at 



our disposal. 



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