Bibliothèque mondiale du cheval

« Having formerly in Dr. Rees’s Cyclopaedia given a brief sketch of several parts of the Equine anatomy, of those parts more especially of this noble animal which required it, as differing the most widely from those of the human, to which more ample details were afterwards added respecting that important part, the foot of the horse, and of his shoeing, exhibiting for the first time its dire and hitherto mysterious evils. We afterwards took up the pharmaceutic department, and hope and trust we have left useful matter for the Veterinarian in that publication : also a General History of horse knowledge, and some parts of the natural history of this precious animal. We are now venturing not without apprehensions, upon the departments of the medicine and surgery of this noble slave, from a pretty extensive period of experience and labor upon it, which has been mercifully permitted us; and after a few general prefatory strictures, or remarks, we shall pursue this elncidation in a simple alphabetic order, as being the most easy for reference of any, to the practitioner.
It may not however be without its use in the first place, just to explain the meaning of the terms above employed for divisions, as all practising these arts are not alike versed in the Greek and Latin languages, and to whom therefore it may not be unacceptable. Such terms are ever useful, indeed necessary, as saving much circumlocution and affording more precise boundary lines than long definitions, and in facilitating also the writing, thinking, and even reasoning, upon these subjects.[…] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1838)