PREFACE. 
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The rapidity with which a large edition of “ Moller’s Veterinary 
Surgery ” has been taken up by the veterinary profession in this and 
other English-speaking countries rendered it necessary to prepare a new 
volume to take its place. This I now have the pleasure of placing 
before the public. The experience gained since the issue of the 
first volume, the valuable criticisms of fellow-practitioners, and the 
continued advances in the science of veterinary surgery have made 
indispensable a thorough reconstruction of the material, so that whilst 
I have deviated as little as possible from the original plan of arrange¬ 
ment, I have excised much that was of doubtful or secondary importance, 
and have added freely from my own experience and from the teachings 
of the British and European veterinary Press. Despite my best efforts 
to keep it within reasonable compass, the book has grown by more than 
one hundred pages of letter-press, and the illustrations have been much 
more than doubled. 
To Professor McQueen, my faithful coadjutor in former works, I am 
indebted for many valuable suggestions, and for performing the indis¬ 
pensable but onerous task of reading the proof sheets of the book as it 
passed through the press. 
Herr Wilhelm Braumiiller, of Vienna, Herren Schonefeld, of Dresden, 
and Messrs. Asselin and Houzeau, of Paris, very kindly consented to 
supply me with some of the new illustrations, whilst others were gene¬ 
rously placed at my disposal by Messrs. Arnold A Son, of London. The 
greater number, however, have been specially drawn for me by Mr. 
Beecroft, of London, and engraved by John Swaine & Sons. 
As on a previous occasion, I have to plead for lenient consideration of 
work performed in all the storm and stress of a busy practitioner’s life; 
a life, moreover, complicated by many undertakings other than those 
strictly appertaining to the profession of veterinary surgery, and 
