CHAPTER VI. 



On WOUNDS. 



A HERE is no part of the modern practice of 

 farriery in which the animal is more injudici- 

 ously treated, than in that which relates to 

 wounds, and this appears the more extraordi- 

 nary, when it is considered that this branch of 

 the diseases of the horse is much more ostensible 

 than those which are internal, and consequently 

 less liable to uncertainty and misconception. 

 But it is here, as it is in every other case where 

 the practitioner acts without possessing the ru- 

 diments of his art; for although he has the same 

 remedies within his reach, yet he will rarely 

 succeed in his application of them. AVounds 

 which are incident to horses, are generally un- 

 connected with any specific disease, except in 

 the cases of farcy and glanders, and upon this 



ground 



