Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds].

  • John Badcock
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. » The present is a reprint of the former volume, which bore for title, The Veterinary Surgeon,” with the necessary improvements, and such addi¬ tions as the lapse of nearly two years of rigid devo¬ tion to the subject would produce, as naturally as the grass grows. But a slight alteration being deemed proper in a commercial point of view, the reader will discover the reasons in a note^ which was appended to the Preface to that Original Edi¬ tion * ; as he will also in another circumstance of an adverse nature, now pacified, and therefore of no further consequence to the public, unless, indeed, to the curious part of it, who will find, on perusing the last leaf of the Grooms’ Oracle, that my coad¬ jutor and self experienced some unfairness in a cer¬ tain quarter, now no more ! Whatever person would consult these pages with the requisite profit, should previously read ihefii'st hook with care; for in it he will find laid down the * I then said, at page xiv. “ the volume has been a long time at press, and in October last year was fully announced by advertise¬ ment. The author could not therefore satisfactorily account why his title was adopted by another in the month of April of the present year,” (1827.) The entire failure of that attempt, however, forms one more of those painful monitions people derive from experience,
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