PREFACE. 



The want of a popular hand-book on the diseases of the 

 horse has been so much felt and complained of that we 

 have been induced to prepare this little work to supply 

 the desideratum, until some more extensive treatise takes 

 its place. 



In placing this work in the hands of the public, it may 

 be urged that we are injuring the business of the qualified 

 practitioner, by teaching the owners of horses to treat their 

 own stock ; to this we have only to say, that there are so 

 few qualified practitioners in the province, and the necessity 

 for sound advice on the subject is so urgent, that withhold- 

 ing it on these grounds would be doing injustice to farmers 

 beyond the reach of professional advice. We feel confident 

 that this little volume will ^e the means of opening up the 

 way for educated veterinary surgeons, by exposing the 

 impositions and denouncing the cruelties of quackery. 



In the following pages the farmer will find explained, in 

 simple language, the common diseases which occur in the 

 horse in Canada, with the most successful plans of treatment, 

 by a careful study of which he will not only be able to 



