4 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



ginner ; and after acquiring the names of the different 

 bones and muscles, the student must practise upon 

 dead subjects, so that he may be enabled, by dissec- 

 tion, 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 comparative dimen- 

 sions 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 arrest- 

 ing 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 structure 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 in- 

 tended 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. 



