A compendium of cattle medicine; or, practical observations on the diseases of cattle and other domestic animals, except the horse. [Instructions to dairymen, for the management of milch cows / By Messrs Chabert & Huzard. Translated ... with occasional remarks by J. White].

  • White, James, -1825
Date:
1842
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Credit: A compendium of cattle medicine; or, practical observations on the diseases of cattle and other domestic animals, except the horse. [Instructions to dairymen, for the management of milch cows / By Messrs Chabert & Huzard. Translated ... with occasional remarks by J. White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SIXTH EDITION. The present edition of this work, which has hitherto enjoyed so large a portion of public favour, has been carefully revised throughout. The greater portion of the old matter has been retained, but arranged, it is hoped, in a more perspicuous and systematic form. In doing this, some part has been cancelled, in order to avoid repetition ; and a large portion of the Essays, to which the Author alludes, and which formed a sort of supplement in former editions, has been in this embodied in the work itself. The additions to the present edition, it will be seen, are copious : free use has been made of the communications of practical men ; and where it has been possible, the language itself of the writers has been given, in order that they should not be deprived of any portion of that credit which is due to them for assisting the improvement of this branch of veterinary medicine. Since the former editions of this work were published, the diseases of cattle have engaged the attention of many veterinary surgeons ; and
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