A Treatise on the Diseases of the Ox: Being a Manual of Bovine Pathology; Especially Adapted for the Use of Venterinary Practitioners and Students (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Steel, John Henry

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ISBN 10: 1331222060 ISBN 13: 9781331222064

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Diseases of the Ox: Being a Manual of Bovine Pathology; Especially Adapted for the Use of Venterinary Practitioners and Students It may be fancied that in these cases I am dogmatic, but a full statement of each controversy would have trespassed too much on my space and perchance on the patience of my readers, to many of whom the work will, even in its present form, seem quite large enough. I the less regret that I have not been in a position to exhaustively treat my subject, since simultaneously with the announcement of this manual appears that of a larger and more pretentious work on the same subject, by an author whose ability has been already proved by an excellent volume on 'Canine Pathology, ' Professor J. W. Hill, F.R.C.V.S. My treatise on 'Bovine Pathology' is specially prepared for the veterinary practitioner and student. I desire that for the former it may be a useful means of recalling facts, which in the rush of daily business are apt to slip the memory, and may also afford a ready reference to past periodical literature, through which he would neither have time nor inclination to wade. At the expense of severe literary research I have summarised and arranged the facts which have been communicated to the profession through the medium of our journals. But while I have thus endeavoured to produce an exact statement of the present condition of cattle practice, I have not aimed at a record of profound investigation. Neither the state of the profession nor of science demands this, so I have been content to think at every point "how does this concern the practitioner?" The requirements of the student are similar, also his knowledge must be comprehensive and exact for the emergencies of examinations. Thus, I have specially aimed at method, the application of general principles, and precise statement of facts and conclusions. Also I have inserted accounts of methods of administration and other details which might to the practitioner

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Diseases of the Ox: Being a Manual of Bovine Pathology; Especially Adapted for the Use of Venterinary Practitioners and Students

Cut 4 has been Copied by permission from Gant's Science and Practice of Surgery.' Messrs. Arnold and Son, the well-known veterinary instrument makers, of West Smithfield, have supplied me with some cuts of instruments, for which I hereby convey my thanks.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331222060
• ISBN 13: 9781331222064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528