^i)6 RINGBONES, 



Docking, cropping, nicking, and fhoeing, 

 are io immedialely the concerns of the fmith 

 and farrier, that they ckim no part of our 

 attention in this pubHcation, being totally 

 nnconnedled with the inveftigation of difeafe 

 or method of cure. It has been the intentions, 

 through the courfe of this work, to render 

 both the original caufe of complaint, and ne- 

 ceflary adminiftration of medicine, as clear as 

 the nature of each cafe would admit; fuch ex- 

 planatory paffages having been blended with 

 the different parts as muft perfedlly reconcile 

 the whole to every comprehenfion. Enough 

 has been faid under the diftindt heads of 

 GREASE, HIDE-BOUND, SURFEIT, 

 MANGE, and FARCY, to inculcate not 

 only a juft idea of the blood's circulation, its 

 changes and effedls, but to eflablifh a clear 

 and perfedt conception of all thofe caufes that 

 conftitute the foundation of difeafes fo long 

 Jagacioi(fiy diftinguiflied by the denomination 

 of *' HUMOURS," in a failure of a more 

 fcientiiic or fatisfacftory explanation. 



Influenced originally in the plan and form- 

 ation of this work by no other motive than the 



general 



