4 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



subjects, SO that he may be enabled, by dissection, at once 

 to determine what part of the body is affected by lameness 

 or a wound. He must next acquire a thorough knowledge 

 of the exact situation of the internal organs, and their com- 

 parative dimensions and structure. Attention must next be 

 given to Chemistry, and the compounding of medicines, with 

 the relative quantities to be administered to the different 

 animals, which will depend upon, as above hinted at, the 

 structure of the stomach and the length of the large and 

 small intestines. Upon the character also of the nervous 

 system will depend much of the treatment of animals, and 

 the energy and immediate application of remedial means. 

 Some diseases are slow in their progress, while others are so 

 rapid that there is more art and utility in arresting them, 

 than in a cure after they are fairly formed. But this 

 can only be acquired by experience. 



It is not pretended that the knowledge above specified is 

 to be found within the limits of this work, which is chiefly 

 intended as a popular digest of all that is truly useful to 

 the country gentleman and practical farmer, and others 

 possessing domestic animals. We shall, however, in the 

 course of the work, give illustrations of the general struc- 

 ture of the Horse, with such other parts as should be 

 generally known, and directions concerning their functions ; 

 so that the classes for whom it is intended may have such 

 a knowledge of the subject, as will enable them to act for 

 themselves, in ordinary cases, and in others to qualify them 

 for detecting the impositions too frequently practised by 

 ignorant quacks 



