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During a long experience in teaching veterinary medicineand surgery in Cornell University, the author felt the urgentneed of a compend on the subject, written from the Americanstandpoint and having special reference to the American live stockindustry. This led to the production of the Farmer’s VeterinaryAdviser, which has been well received, and has, up to the present,passed through ten editions in the United States, besides the unauthorizededitions published in Canada and Great Britain.
In entering upon a larger field as Director of the New YorkState Veterinary College, and professor of medicine and sanitaryscience, he aims at producing a work which will meet the needsof the American student and practitioner. The special phases ofanimal pathology in America, the diseases peculiar to our soil,and the parasites that prevail here, but are unknown in Europe,demand consideration from the American point of view. Thespecial features of our breeding, grazing and feeding industries,and of the dairy, over our great extent of territory, and thevarying influence of soil, water, climate, altitude and traffic, thescope and limitations of our interstate traffic, and our special relationto the old world in the matter of meat products, combine withother conditions in demanding a somewhat different treatment ofthe subject from that which we find in European publications.Then, too, the recent extraordinary advances in the field ofbacteriology and sanitary science, which have virtually revolutionizedmodern medicine, and are an earnest of still greater advancesin the near future, demand a work which shall, as far as possible,set forth the present advanced status, and thus lay a solidfoundation to intelligently follow, if not to lead, in the imminentadvance. As a contribution to this, the present volume, the firstof a series, is offered to students, practitioners and scientists bytheir friend,