Gleason's veterinary hand-book and system of horse taming ...

Preface

The human race has very largely emancipated itself from the old school of medical science which prescribed the lancet, calomel and rhubarb for nearly all ailments; and now we think it is about time to free our friends, the dumb brutes of the farm yard, from the attacks of those veterinary quacks who know little or nothing except blood-letting, " firing," drenching, and other barbarous customs long ago proved to be not only useless, but absolutely unnecessary, brutal and harmful.

The aim of the editor has been to make a book free from literary nicety and labored effort — clear, concise and accurate — carefully eschewing the injurious system of bleeding, blistering, firing and physicking, and presenting the very latest and best approved methods of modern veterinary science in such a plain and direct way that the knowledge here given may be available to every reader.

This Hand-Book is based very largely upon the works of Robert McClure, M. D., V. S., one of the most celebrated, and perhaps the most uniformly successful Veterinarian this country has ever produced. The methods of treating diseases of domestic animals are

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based upon the results of actual practice, not mere theory, as is the case with most veterinary works. The modes of treatment here given may be relied upon absolutely, having been tried and proved; and the descriptions of symptoms, signs of disease, etc., are unusually full and distinct.

The treatise on " Diseases of Sheep " deserves special mention, having been generally accepted as the most reliable treatise on this important subject yet given to the public.

At my earnest request the Publishers have consented to place the Veterinary Hand-Book upon the market at an extremely low price. I am convinced that a large circulation of this volume will have the effect of correcting many errors that exist not only in the minds of stock-owners, but in the practice of many veterinary surgeons; and this result, rather than pecuniary gain, has been the motive which prompted the preparation of this work.

OLIVER W. GLEASON.

Philadelphia, April 15, 1889.

Introduction

PAGE

Breathing, 34

Causes of Disease, 29

How to Observe Diseases, 30

Principles of Disease, 31

Treatment of Disease, 35

Vis Medicatrix Natura?, 36

DISEASES OF THE HORSE.

Abrasion, 39

Abscess, 40

Acari, 40

Accidents, 40

Aconite, 41

Alteratives, s 41

Amaurosis, 41

Anaemia, 41

Anchylosis, , ... 41

Aneurism, 41

Apoplexy, • 42

Aphtha, 43

Atrophy, 43

Black Sinuses, 43

Baldness, ... * 43

Belly-ache, 43

Big Head, 43

Bishoping, 44

Bite of Mad Dog, 44