In presenting this treatise on the diseases of dogs and cats to our readers, we do so with confidence in its value as a vade mecum on the subject. It is written by a veterinary surgeon of very large experience, who has made the smaller domesticated animals a special study, and condensed in the pages of a comparatively small book more practical information than can be found in any similar work. It has been the aim of the author to avoid technical terms and the scientific jargon which often does duty for plain and concise instruction, but, being written for the use of chemists, the formulae are expressed in the ordinary language of the dispenser. The need of such a work has been long recognised in the trade, but not supplied. It is impossible within the covers of a single work to afford chemists and druggists the information required on horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats and poultry, and we have endeavoured to avoid such a mistake by offering our readers a work which can be thoroughly relied upon for directions as to the treatment of those animals about which the chemist is so often consulted, and for which he may easily acquire a reputation, adding to his business a profitable branch which has been generally neglected by Veterinary Surgeons, who prefer to devote their attention more exclusively to horses and cattle. In treating of the diseases of dogs and cats, we do not propose to follow the beaten path hitherto adopted and slavishly copied, to the exclusion of all originality and introduction of modern pharmaceutical agents. Nearly all that has been written on dogs and cats may be briefly described as Youatt boiled down or Stonehenge plagiarised.
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