PREFACE. XV 



But farther to obviate any disappointment 

 which might accrue to my readers, in not 

 meeting in the following pages with what has 

 been generally termed a compleat system of 

 farriery, I have only to add, that I have direct- 

 ed my endeavours to point out the means of 

 preventing diseases, and thereby to save the 

 animal the pain and danger of undergoing 

 medical discipline from the hands of those 

 who are unqualified for that purpose ; and I 

 wish it to be understood, that my motive for In- 

 troducing the foregoing observations originated 

 purely from the conviction, that this branch of 

 medicine, as well as all others, would, in every 

 point of view, be more beneficial to the public, 

 and to practitioners themselves, if it was di- 

 vested of those little artifices which have too 

 long disgraced it. 



For 



