PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



It has been both gratifying and encouraging to the writer 

 to have his efforts received so kindly, and he takes this oppor- 

 tunity to thank the members of the profession (including the 

 students) by whose cooperation a second edition is demanded. 



In the second edition it is not my purpose to enlarge to 

 any extent, as it would thus interfere with the primary object of 

 the work, viz., to give the student and busy practitioner a con- 

 densed work on the Practice of Equine Medicine. 



Knowing the importance and benefit of prefixes and suffixes 

 to the students in aiding them to formulate and understand 

 more readily the definitions of words used in medicine, the 

 author has added to the list, and also included a few derivations 

 from the Latin and Greek roots. 



The principal other additions will pertain to bacteriology, 

 which has to do with the Etiology of certain Infectious Diseases 

 so far as Pathologists have been able to aid us. Other altera- 

 tions and additions will be made wherever deemed necessary. 



H. D. HANSON. 



New York Citt, July, 1908. 



