Excerpt from Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in Diseases and Injuries of the Horse
This work has been prepared with a desire to present in a concise form a practical manual of the diseases and injuries of the horse, and their treatment, for the use of practitioners of medicine and other intelligent horse owners. The professional veterinarian already has at his command several large and excellent treatises. These, however, devote considerable space to the consideration of subjects familiar to the student of medicine, and unnecessary to the non-professional reader. Physiology and pathology are, therefore, seldom referred to in the present work.
Originality is not claimed for this hand-book, although many practical ideas, the result of sixteen years experience in the ownership and consequent care of horses have been incorporated in its pages. It would have been a more agreeable task to rewrite it entirely, but the time requisite for such an undertaking was not available, and it has been necessary to make free use of the work of others.
The recent treatise of General Fitzwygram on Horses and Stables has been taken as a basis, and quoted from verbatim to a large extent. Similar copious extracts have been made from the works of Prof. Williams on Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, and from the still later treatise on Equine Medicine by Prof. Wm. Robinson.
The editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness also to the works of Percivall, Gamgee, Hayes, Youatt, Mayhew, Dun, Walsh, Blain, Tuson, Armitage and others, to the Veterinary Journal to D'Arboval's Dictionnaire de Medecine Veterinaire, etc., all of which have been freely drawn from, especially for methods of treatment.
The compiler is conscious that there are many imperfections in his work, but believes, nevertheless, that it will be found better fitted for the purpose for which it has been prepared than any heretofore published.
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