Excerpt from Practical Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics This book is intended for a practical text on Veterinary Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The author realizes that the only object of studying pharmacology is the use of drugs in treating disease, yet, in order to prescribe a drug intelligently it is necessary to have more than a general idea of its action. The greater emphasis is placed upon pharmacology because the author believes that the only place to study Materia Medica is in the laboratory and Therapeutics can best be studied in medicine and the clinics. There are numerous ways in which remedies may be grouped and none is perfect although it seems that a therapeutic grouping has many advantages since it allows a better correlation between the action and the uses of the different agents. Consequently the plan has been to discuss the different groups in a general way and then follow with a detailed description of the individual drugs. The prescriptions are intended only to be representative and to illustrate the ways in which medicines may be prescribed, although many of them have been tried and are in almost daily use by the author. The author claims little if any originality in the material included. He has drawn freely from the current literature and standard books on the subject. He has not considered it wise to include a bibliography in a book of this kind. Yet he would especially desire to mention such books as those of Cushny, Sollmann, Bastedo, Dixon, Hoare and Frohner on pharmacology and therapeutics; those of Law and Hutyra and Marek on medicine and Amy on pharmacy. In conclusion I desire to express my appreciation to Dr. C. P. Fitch for the most excellent chapter on Bacterius, Serums, Vaccines and antitoxins, and to Prof. P. A. Fish for the use of several tracings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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