Volume 1

Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles.

  • Suckling, Horatio John.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEW EDITION or YOUATT’S WORK ON THE HORSE. Just publishfed,. in One Volume, Sto. price 10s, Od. cloth, T H E H O R S E: WITH A TREATISE ON DRAUGHT, WILLIAM YOIJATT, With numerous Woodciillll^strationi, chiefly from Design^ hyW, Harvey, Third Edition, revised and enlarged hy E. N. Crahrielj M.R.Q.S. C.V.S,, Secretary to the Hoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, rrwENTA.EXaHT years ago J- Mn - ifo who had then brought to the dignity of a science the gystem of veterinary surgery, published, Tinder the auspices of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, his first edition o£ the present work, Twelve years later the requirements of the pro* fession called for a reprint of a book that by that time had taken the place of a standard authority. second edition, with so much additional matter as to be? •come almost a new work, was the cause* quenoe. In the sixteen years which have since elapsed, the profession has made such advances in the intelligence of its members and ip the accumulation of scientific facts, so mnoti important new information Ms been acquired, both in respect to the pathology of the horse and the treatment of the diseases to whioh he is liable, as Well as clearer knowledge of the nature and habits of this noble ani* mal; above all, so mhoh more humane and scientific views as respects his edu- cation and management have been of late propounded,—that to keep pace with the spread of knowledge and the en* Jightenecl opiifiona of tho time as legavds this ne* cessary braimh of study^, a fiuvd and still nrore oom* plete edition of Mr, .Yodatt s standa^'d work hfgaixie matter of absolnte T^epTirgnTent, So weg does e book before as gome up’ tp'itbg pegd of every traheb of its coruprebeusive subject, that it is not pjily one of tbg most valuable aut|iorities on vete» yinaiy gcjgncewg possess, but a eerfermange most dreditahle to My, Grahrielj the editor of the third edition. The first thing that strikes ns fs the admirable classification that obtains throughout the hook. The contents are divided into twenty*seven ehapters, and comprise be* sides the early records of the horse, his goologioal classification and natural hist tory, as well as the anatomy, physiology, and disease of every part, with its treat- ment. In fat%^nothi]^Jias-been omitted that directly or indirectly can claim a pertinent connexion with the horse, either in health or sickness, domesticity or freedom. Several of the chapters, such as that bn-the early history of the ani* mal, the foreign and home breeds, vices, management, and medicines, may be re- garded 'as clear and able treatises j some of thenf extremely interesting, but all eminently sound and practical. The work isi lihei'aHy illustrated in the best style of the art of wood‘engraving. The editor (|oes. ample justice to Mr, Rarey’a new principles of—not taming, for we consider .that an objectionable term—but' rather education, for it amounts to that j indeed, there is great freedom and can* dour of opiniou tbrougbout tbg volumg, lu rgcom-. pjgnding it without reagryg to gvery oug intgrested in tbg bvggdiug, bgalth, and ggneral well-being of the horse, wg gap promisg to aU who gousult it an amount of practigal juforiuation on those sub* jects nowbgre to be found bgttgr, or more usefully arranged, than in tbg third edition of Yauatt on Morso,' S’Ae Era, August 21,1S58, yOUATT’S WOKE ON THE DOO in 8vo, with Woodcuts, pfinV 6s,—may also be had. j LondonI LONGtMAIX, (IBEEN,/acd CO, Paterncstei’ Bow* 22900043219