The PREFACE, 



confined themfelves fo much to Cuftom, but have 

 fallen upon better Methods than thofe generally pre- 

 fcrib*d ; and we find feveral very good Remedies 

 handed from one to another, which are not to be met 

 with in Books ; but yet, as moft are unacquainted 

 with the Requifites neceflary for the right Ad mini - 

 flration of thefe Remedies, they often prove as Wea- 

 pons in unskilful Hands, which may either do Good 

 or Hurt, as they happen to be right or wrong ap- 

 ply'd ; and if there be fome who know how to ap- 

 ply them better than others, yet while their Me- 

 thods are not communicated to the Publick, and 

 thereby rendered of general Ufe, the Art can be but 

 little advanced. 



From all which Reafons, and the frequent Com- 

 plaints of thofe who are the greateil Sufferers by 

 the Deficiency of this Art, we have been induced 

 to propofe this our New Guide j wherein we have 

 not only delivered an Account of all the Difeafes 

 incident to Horfes, with the Method of Cure, but 

 alfo the Anatofny of a Horfe \ the Knowledge of 

 which being as neceflary to Farriers, as that of the 

 Human Body to Phyfician^ and Surgeons ; and we 

 are in Hopes it will meet with the more ready Re- 

 ception, becaufe the Attempts that have been made 

 of this Kind already by Sig. Ruini^ and Mr. Snap 

 ]ate Farrier to King Charles 11. have both been in 

 fome Meafare rendered fruitlefs \ the firft having 

 writ in a Language unknown to us, and at a Time 

 when this Art was in a Manner in its Infancy ; 

 and the other having never pub]i(h*d any thing pro- 

 fefiedly of Difeafes (tho' he fully intended it) but 

 only his Volume of Anatomy, which, befides that 

 it is very rarely to be met v^ith, is alfo fo large, 

 and incumbred with fo many things foreign to the 

 Purpofe, as makes it, in a great Meafure, unprofi^ 

 table to thofe for whom it was principally intended. 



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