DEDICATION. To my Friends, Professors Dick and STEWART, and Messrs. Ainslie, Apperley (Nimrod), Brown, Car¬ lisle, Cartwright, Corbet, Daws, Karkeek, King, May, T. Mayer, jun., Morton, Percivall, Pritchard, Simonds, C. Spooner, W. C. Spooner, St. Clair, Storry, and J. Tombs, to whom—at the commencement of this work, when I lay on a sick, and, I thought, for awhile, a dying bed, and having occasion to address most of them on other matter—I ventured to speak of the subject on which I was employed—who kindly, eagerly, answered my call, and furnished me with many a useful hint, con¬ cerning the general enforcement of the duty of humanity, and particularly*as it bore on our common profession : To Mrs. Blachford, of whose constant exertions in the cause of humanity I could tell many a tale, and at whose solicitation this work was undertaken; and to my daughter, Mary Ann, my good, and affectionate, and unwearied emanuensis, this volume is dedicated. None of my veterinary brethren will ever regret that they have thus identified themselves with a noble cause, and have pledged themselves to the public, that, in their
