PREFACE 
AT THE request of some of the leading stockowners and 
prominent farmers of Canada and the United States, 
and believing that a work of this kind has long been 
wanted by those interested in domestic animals, the 
authors have undertaken the publication of The Veterinary 
Science in the simplest English language. They have en- 
deavored to make it a profitable and interesting study for 
stockowners and their sons, who, by carefully consulting its 
pages, will find it to contain information of untold value. 
Part 1. contains the practical anatomy or conformation 
of the horse, and should be carefully studied. 
The diseases and treatment of the horse follow in Part 
II. Chapter I. lays the plan of how to examine a sick horse, 
and as the reader proceeds it will be found simple in the 
extreme. Mistakes in dealing with a case can hardly be 
made, as the causes, symptoms and treatment of the diseases 
are so fully explained that the stockowner has but to follow 
the directions laid down. 
The comparative anatomy, diseases and treatment of 
cattle in Part III. will likewise be found as simply and satis- 
factorily explained as that of the horse. 
The diseases and treatment of sheep, found in Part IV., 
are fully dealt with, and it will be found by persons who' 
read and study this part of the book that sheep are as easily 
treated as any of the other animals. The same may be said 
of the diseases and treatment of pigs, dogs and poultry, found 
in the same Part. 
The medicines and receipts that constitute Part V. are a 
very important part of the study; they are fully and prac- 
tically explained. The receipts for making liniments, lotions, 
powders, blisters, etc., are very valuable to everybody, especi- 
ally those interested in stock, to which it may now be said 
the farmer looks for a livelihood. 
The index, as will be seen, is a prominent feature of the 
book, being an index of symptoms as well as of diseases. 
This makes it very easy to find out from what an animal is 
suffering. Finding the symptom in the index directs you 
exactly to that part of the book in which that particular dis- 
ease is treated. 
J. E. HoDGiNS, V. S. V. D. 
London, Canada. T. H. Haskett^ D, V, D, 
