396 RINGBONES. 



Docking, cropping, nicking, and flioeing, 

 are fo immediately the concerns of the fmitb 

 znd farrier, that they claim no part of our at* 

 tention in this publication, being totally un- 

 connected with the iriveftigation of difeafe or 

 method of cure. It has been the intention, 

 through the courfe of this work, to render 

 both the original caufe of complaint, and ne- 

 ceffary adminiflration of medicine, as clear as 

 the nature of each cafe would admit; fuch ex- 

 planatory paflages having been blended with 

 the different parts as muft perfedly reconcile 

 the whole to every comprehenfion. Enough 

 has been fald under the diftind heads of 

 GREASE, HIDE - BOUND, SURFEIT, 

 MANGE, and FARCY, to inculcate not 

 only a jull: idea of the blood's circulation, its 

 changes and defects, but to eftablilli a clear 

 and perfedt conception of all thofe caufes that 

 conftitute the foundation of difeaies fo long 

 fagacioujly diftinguifhed by the denomination 

 of *' HUMOURS," in failure of a more 

 fcientific or fatisfadory explanation. 



Influenced originally in the plan and forma- 

 tion of this work by no other motive than the 

 I general 



