Veterinary Notes for Dog Owners - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091743745 ISBN 13: 9780091743741

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1990

Synopsis

A manual of canine medicine and surgery, explaining the symptoms and treatment of every disease or injury that the dog owner is likely to encounter. It contains detailed sections on the organ systems (digestive, cardiovascular, reproductive, urinary, nervous, endocrine, ear/eye/nose, musculoskeletal and the skin), infectious diseases (bacterial, viruses, parasites) and inherited diseases. Including chapters on nursing, medicines, first aid, dentistry, genetic finger-printing, auto-immune problems and cancer as well as on the breeds, and canine behavioural problems, this book is a standard work on canine health care.

About this title

About the Author:

Trevor Turner has lived with dogs all his life. He qualified from the Royal Veterinary College, London in the late nineteen fifties and shortly afterwards established a suburban practice which has grown into a large veterinary hospital of which he is the principal.

Writing and talking widely on canine and associated topics, he has received from the British Small Animal Veterinary Association the prestigious Melton Award in recognition of his work in forging links between the veterinary profession, breeders and the pet owning public.

Married to a veterinary nurse Jean, they currently share their lives with three dogs and four cats.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0091743745
• ISBN 13: 9780091743741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 605
• Editor: Turner Trevor