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with justice call a monument of fame, if only by the impress he has. 
made on the veterinary science of his day. 
The great encouragemént we have hitherto received from the 
press, and the large sale of our previous works, have been to us at 
once most gratifying rewards for labours achieved, and at the same 
time have furnished us with a most wholesome stimulus for. renewed 
application. The need of and consequent demand for such a handbook. 
as the present one have been abundantly testified in numerous ways. 
With regard, however, to the way in which this particular work came 
to be written, we may say that although we had intended to bring 
out before long a book of this character, still we should in all. 
probability certainly not have carried out our intention so rapidly, had 
it not been for the enlightened and most kind courtesy of the Editor 
and Proprietors of Zhe Yorkshire Lost. We hope that the 
readers of that well-known and justly esteemed paper will have 
derived as much advantage as we ourselves have done. Were it only 
for the exigencies of providing “copy,” a most wholesome, if at times a 
very inconvenient stimulus to a writer, we ought to acknowledge the 
benefits we have derived from our connection with this widely circulating 
paper. The advantages, however, are by no means confined to this 
necessity, and we can only say that we hope the good accruing has been 
shared by all others as well and as much as by ourselves. 
In view of the large amount of errors prevalent regarding the 
diseases of the horse,. and the very great detriment often accruing in 
eShsequenee: we do not apologise for again intruding on the public, 
inasmuch as our efforts hitherto have met with the approving 
“commendation of many of those justly entitled to form an opinion as to 
the merits of our work. When the favorable remarks of the general 
public, to whom we. also appeal, were added, we no longer feared that 
this, our latest production, would meet with a reception no less 
favourable than that of its predecessors. The number of letters we have 
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