TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. 



During the nine years in which I was Professor of Veterinary 

 Surgery and Obstetrics in the Veterinary Department of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, the fact was daily brought to my mind 

 with ever-increasing force that there was absolutely no satisfactory 

 text-book on the practice of* veterinary medicine for English- 

 speaking students and practitioners. Those who could read 

 German or French were particularly fortunate, as they had choice 

 of a number of scientific and up-to-date works on this subject; 

 the others were obliged to content themselves with what notes 

 they could make on the lectures of their teachers. 



A knowledge of this paucity in English veterinary literature, 

 together with the conditions which were responsible for it, was the 

 principal cause which prompted me to endeavor to fill this great 

 void as quickly and as completely as possible. This could be done 

 in but one way, viz., by the translation of one of the many valuable 

 productions existing in French or German. The need for such a 

 work was too urgent and the time too limited to permit of anything 

 original on this subject. 



It appeared to me that the very admirable production of Professors 

 Friedberger and Frohner would be most suited to our demands ; its 

 merits were so unquestionable and its value so thoroughly appre- 

 ciated and understood, that it had even been adopted by the French 

 as a text-book. No work has yet appeared in any language so 

 thoroughly scientific and exhaustive as that of Friedberger and 

 Frohner, a translation of which I here offer to the English-speaking 

 veterinary surgeon and student. In making this translation the 

 latest editions both German and French have been used. 



It will be seen by making a comparison with the original work 

 that the bibliography has been excluded ; this has been done for 

 the reason that it tended to encumber the book with a mass of 

 material of but little value to the general practitioner ; those few 



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