Diseases of the dog and their treatment

Philadelphia: W. Horace Hoskins, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Very good copy in original brown pebbled cloth (slight wear at head and tail, corners a little bumped). xvii, [2], 18-419 pages. With 93 illustrations. Title-page with faint blemish, but the text is clean and unmarked, the binding sound and strong. Early ownership inscription on verso of final leaf: "Dr. E. Wainfor (?), Marion." ¶ First Edition in English - profusely illustrated throughout (some of the line drawings are highly curious). This is the finest copy of the 1897 First English Edition on the market. ¶ The translator, Alexander Glass, "instantly recognized its value as a text-book: every detail in the diseases of the dog being carefully considered, and the whole so admirably arranged that the student can readily find and study any subject in a clear and condensed form." This work went through four editions up to 1920. * INCLUDES: General examination, the skeleton, the mucous membranes and the skin, emphysema, Diseases of the digestive apparatus, examination of the oesophagus and the stomach, digestion of the stomach on a meat-diet, physical examination of the bowels and liver, diseases of the mouth, tongue, and salivary glands, diseases of the teeth, diseases of the intestines, tapeworms, diseases of the liver, physical examination of the larynx and windpipe, diseases of the nose, Diseases of the circulatory apparatus, and much more. * FROM THE PREFACE: "In writing these pages the author has endeavored to give a short, accurate, and clear definition of the modern knowledge of diseases of the dog, and to adapt his treatise to the requirements of the profession. Speculations and hypotheses have been studiously avoided, while, on the other hand, plain facts have received careful consideration. Diagnosis has been given the most prominent place, as it deserves in a work of this kind, and the author has endeavored to establish the symptoms with their relation to the disease and to confine their therapeutic treatment to a knowledge of normal and pathological anatomy and physiology, for he believes that it is on a clear and accurate knowledge of the normal and pathological structure of life the fundamental base of all clinical science lies. The writer has also included some selected formulae which he considers of practical value to the reader. (Inventory #: 809)