The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Caulton Reeks.

  • Reeks, H. Caulton (Harry Caulton)
Date:
1903
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Credit: The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Caulton Reeks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been for generations establishing. If by one iota he can add to the knowledge already accumulated, he is a lucky man. My plagiarism confessed, I feel no need to publish a list of the literature to which I am indebted. I would, however, particularly like to mention two names : The first, that of William Percivall, whose writings have fallen into an obscurity they certainly do not deserve ; the second, Veterinary-Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Smith, from whose works I have very largely drawn, and whose contributions to this and allied subjects have been such as to place the veterinary profession under a deep debt of gratitude. I would also mention that the courtesy of Professor M’Fadyean enables me to reprint from the Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics an article of my own that now forms the subject - matter of Chapter IX. Professor Macqueen has kindly allowed me to make use of his valuable experiments concerning the operation of laparo-enterotomy, and Mr. E. R. Harding, of Salisbury, has furnished me with his experiences relating to the stimulant treatment of intestinal impaction. The attempt in Chapters IX., X., and XI. to dif- ferentiate varieties of subacute intestinal obstruction may be regarded as the main original portion of this work. For the present, I simply ask for that a careful reading. # This book, then, carries no pretence to being entirely original. It is a gathering together of observations that other minds have made, with just so much of my own experience as would enable me to weld the loose particles into one presentable whole. I am not without hopes that the manual will prove of help to the student,