Large Animal Internal Medicine (Hardcover)

~ Bradford P. Smith DVM (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

If you purchase only one textbook for large animal practice, be your work mainly equine or farm animal, this is the one you should buy. This is a truly global large animal veterinary medicine textbook, while retaining its relevance to UK and Irish practitioners. It is suitable as a reference book for students, general practitioners and specialists alike, and is well worth the price as a comprehensive review of large animal medicine.

Veterinary Record, February 2009 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Book Description

Using a problem-oriented approach to the diagnosis of diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, and goats, this text teaches readers how to diagnose based on what they observe and what the laboratory and diagnostic tests reveal

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 2112 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 3 edition (June 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323009468
• ISBN-13: 978-0323009461
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #813,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable reference for large animal medicine, January 4, 2004

By	"qashgai" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This textbook is, in my experience, the best single medicine reference for large animals. It is designed for the graduate veterinarian and is not easy to read, but contains an immense amount of information (plus references) in a usable format. The index is comprehensive, which is useful as some conditions are discussed by different authors in disparate sections of the text. The text is divided into body systems, then subdivided into equine and ruminant diseases. There are also useful rule-out lists for major clinical signs provided at the beginning of the book. The illustrations and photographs are black-and-white and are largely the same as the previous edition, but this edition contains well-updated text material. Detractors from this text include minimal specific treatment information for some disease processes and the lack of a formulary. It also does not cover swine or camelid species. Nonetheless, I find this book far easier to read and use (with more comprehensive information) than the similar Blood and Radostits text. If you care to invest in several texts instead of a single one, try the Current Veterinary Therapy Equine Practice and Food Animal Practice (very easy to read). However, if you choose these keep in mind that you may need more than one volume of each, as each CVT volume is not comprehensive. My copy of Smith is constantly at hand, and has seen a great deal of use since I purchased it. I recommend this book to any large animal practitioner as a necessary reference.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horses have no place in this book, July 8, 2005

By	K. Truitt - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I believe that a vast amount of viable space is wasted on horses in this book. While they technically are large animals, they're so vastly different from cattle that they deserve and have their own books which are great.
I think this book isn't very well written and doesn't go into the pathology of diseases very well... at all. I hate the layout, and I think some ideas are just skimmed over or not mentioned at all.
I would not recommend this book, but the problem is there isn't another one out there.