A Manual of the Diseases of the Elephant: And of His Management and Uses. E-book. Formato PDF John Henry Steel   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Few veterinarians pay attention to the branch of their science with which we are about to deal and even those who do are rarely placed in professional charge of ele phants, facts which react on one another and retard the advance of this division of pathology. Such observations as have been made are mostly due to Transport and other Military and Civil Officers in whose way chance [has thrown the charge of elephants among multifarious duties of a very difierent nature. It is extremely creditable to such officers as Drs. Gil christ and Slymm and Lieut. Ouchterlony that, under such discouraging circumstances, they have done so much as they have on the spur of the moment as it were.

A Manual of the Diseases of the Camel: And of His Management and Uses. E-book. Formato PDF John Henry Steel   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When I brought out the companion work to this, on the Elephant, an ingenious critic rated me soundly because I had not detailed information on diseases of the mighty pachyderm comparable on even terms with our knowledge of the surgery and medicine of the horse, ox, and man. That critic will have lots of scope in scarifying me over this book, for Cameline Pathology is sadly in arrears and the English in India, the Russians in Central Asia, the French in Algeria, and the Arabs in North Africa and South-Western Asia are but slowly accumulating exact knowledge of diseases of the Camel. Had I chosen to bring pure theory to bear I might have posed as a grand promoter, indeed as the originator, of Cameline Pathology and have given a full and elaborate account for correction hereafter by practical observers. Such has not been my object; I have aimed at "holding a mirror up to nature," and have painted Cameline Pathology "with all its warts for I believe that by making the utmost of what we do know, by systematic arrangement, and by scientific expression I best prepare the subject for future advances. It is no slight step forward when we learn our ignorance of a science!