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Excerpt from The Complete Modern Farrier: A Compendium of Veterinary Science and Practice Showing Methods for the Prevention of All Diseases to Which Farm Live-Stock Are Liable On account of the remarkable degree of public favour with which the former editions of this work has been received, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and brought fully up to date, so as to embody all the latest discoveries in Veterinary Science and Practice. In recent years great advances has been made in Veterinary Science, and the researches of Pasteur, Koch, and other eminent investigators in different fields of science have thrown a flood of light on the origin and nature of the diseases to which farm livestock are liable, and have also shown how in the case of many maladies the cause of the disease may be easily removed, so that in that way the disease may be prevented. The results of these researches made by eminent scientists, and confirmed by the practice of eminent veterinary surgeons, have been embodied in this new edition, which thus contains a great deal of valuable matter that was not to be found in the older editions. In the section relating to cattle, several new chapters have been added. 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.