THE 



APvT of FAPvRIEPv Y 



I M P R O V E D, 



C H A P. L 



Of the Zigns of Sicknefs in Ilorfes. 



HAVE formerly ( in niy Pre- 

 face to the Notes upon Captain 

 Burdon's Pocket Farrier) hinted, 

 that it is a very difficult Matter to 

 come at the true Knowledge of 



_ Dillempcrs in Ilorfes, and that 



more Skill and Judgment is requir'd in the Cure 

 of them, than in thofe of a Human Body ; becaufe 

 the poor Creature cannot anfvver any Queilions, 

 therefore we mufi have recourfe to the Motions of 

 his Head, Geftares of his Boiy, i^c. Monfieur 

 Solleyfell, a French Author, has treated very largely 

 as to the lafi: Particulars ; but his prolix manner of 

 Writirg, as well as that of fcnie others of the fame 

 Stam.p, has been a means to bewilder and con- 

 found moft of our common Farriers, who (I am 

 forry to fay it) are generally an ignorant Set of 

 empty Coxcombs, whofe Difcourfe about Diflcmpers 

 would make a knowins Perfcn fick to hear it : 

 ^ B And 



