PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. 



In accordance ■with the hitherto expressed desire of the 

 author and publisher to keep this work at its highest point 

 of efficiency, it has seemed necessary to again present a 

 new and revised edition— the fourth edition of 1906 being 

 exhausted. 



In the present revision the most notable feature is the 

 substitution of a section on Condensed Treatment of Dis- 

 eases of the Domestic Animals for the Index of Diseases 

 and Eemedial Measures, at the end of the book. In the 

 preparation of this matter, very considerable time and 

 pains have been taken to render this section a reflection and 

 epitome of all that is most modern and progressive in veteri- 

 nary therapeutics. 



Special indications for treatment, including drugs and 

 therapeutic agents other than drugs, in the different phases 

 and stages of all the important diseases of the domestic 

 animals, are to be found. These diseases embrace not only 

 medical and surgical disorders, but those of the EYE, skin 

 and EAE. If the attempt has been in any degree successful, 

 this new addition to the book should prove one of its most 

 valuable features both to practitioners and students. 



Moreover, many changes have' been made in the text 

 in consonance with recent advances in our knowledge of the 

 action of drugs. 



Kenelm Winslow. 



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