IV • INTRODUCTION, 



satisfaction of seeing it rise superior to all de- 

 traction ; and can confidently aver, that if any 

 person, who has the least skill in the practical 

 part of farriery, will give strict attention to the 

 symptoms which appear in the afflicted horse ; 

 and will further compare them with the rules and 

 examples laid down in the following Treatise, he 

 will, in a short time, be able to understand their 

 different diseases : when, by carefully applying 

 and administering such medicines as are prescribed 

 for their cure, with good drugs, he will be enabled 

 to effect his intention in the most obstinate dis- 

 eases. 



In its now improved state, the present Treatise 

 contains the result of more than forty years' esta- 

 blished and extensive practice in the veterinary 

 art ; and, as some account has been required of 

 the means by which the author obtained his know- 

 ledge, he trusts the following concise statement will 

 be favourably received by the indulgent reader. 



The author was, in early life, apprenticed to a 

 late eminent farrier* with whom he afterwards 

 continued for many years ; and by whom he was 

 not only entrusted with all the secrets of his 



* Mr. Frost, of Nottingham. 



