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Excerpt from A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Equine Medicine It is our hope, regarding the many and great difficulties which are necessarily encountered in a work of this kind, that allowance will be made for errors of omission and commission which may be detected. We have adopted a somewhat different classification of disease from that in vogue, and trust that its greater simplicity. Will entail less labour on the part of the student, without rendering it any the less scientific. Throughout we have endeavoured to lay stress on those points which are of very great interest and importance from a comparative pathological point of View. Into the histological structure of the malignant growths Of the horse we have, purposely, not fully entered, it being our purpose to publish, as soon as opportunity arises, a monograph on the comparative pathology and etiology of the malignant growths in man and animals.vi preface. In the treatment of disease we have followed more especially the methods adopted by the late Mr. D. Gress well, and those which practical experience leads us to consider of the greatest value. We have appended chapters on Entozoa and Toxicology, as we consider both these subjects of great importance to the veterinary practitioner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.