THE ACUTE STAGE OF MEGRIMS. See page 25.
THE
ILLUSTRATED
HORSE DOCTOR
BEING
AN ACCURATE AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DISEASES
TO WHICH THE EQUINE RACE ARE SUBJECTED
TOGETHER
WITH THE LATEST MODE OF TREATMENT, AND
ALL THE REQUISITE PRESCRIPTIONS.
WRITTEN IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
ACCOMPANIED BY
More than Four Hundred Pictorial Representations.
BY
EDWARD MAYHEW, M.R.C.V.S.
AUTHOR OF "THE HORSE'S MOUTH;" "DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT;" EDITOR OF "BLAIN'S VETERINARYART," ETC. ETC.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1862.
To
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Baronet,
AS A
TESTIMONY OF THE BENEVOLENCE AND SKILL
WHICH
RESCUED THE AUTHOR FROM IMPENDING DEATH,
This Book is Dedicated,
BY
HIS MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,
EDWARD MAYHEW.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE publishers of the present work have long been impressedwith the idea that a new book upon the Diseasesof the Horse, written in simple language, and specially designedas a guide for non-professional readers, had grown tobe a public necessity. While waiting for an opportunity tocarry this notion into effect, they were fortunate enoughto become acquainted with a gentleman whose proficiencyin veterinary science is undisputed. To that individualthe present work was intrusted; and it was nearly completedwhen the publishers heard with surprise that Mr.Mayhew employed the pencil in a manner only secondaryto his use of the pen.
Acting on this information, the publishers were inducedto persuade the author to illustrate his text by drawingsdescriptive of the various stages and aspects of disease.The addition of above four hundred wood engravings has,of course, materially increased the expense of publication.A heavy outlay has been incurred, while, at the same time,the spirit of the age is decidedly against paying a largesum for any work of general information. These circumstancesrender the present volume doubly hazardous. However,it is confidently hoped that, when the accuracy ofthe illustrations and the perspicuity of the letter-press areappreciated, a large sale will more than recompense anyamount of outlay.
PREFACE.
WHEN laying the present volume before the public, the authorcannot but feel he addresses two very opposite parties: one, and byfar the larger portion of society, views the subject of which thisbook pretends to treat simply as a working machine, and regards allthose who speak of the creature as endowed with intelligence or possessedof sensibility as fanciful sentimentalists checked by no limit toassertion.