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of medicine in general, and proceeding to an hiftori- 

 cal account of that branch of it, that, as applied to 

 the difeafes of domeftic animals, is termed veterinary 

 medicine; or, as immediately regarding the horfe, is 

 called /arnerj/ : — the particular hiftory of this art in 

 England ; with a comparifon between Englifli and 

 continental farriery : — a hiftory of the rife, origin, 

 ^nd progrefs of the Veterinary College : — chemiftry, 

 and its relation with the healing art : — the laws of 

 organic life ; with a comparative view of the various 

 animals furrounding us. 



Part II. confiders the anatomical ftru^lure, func- 

 tions, and oeconomy of the horfe, commencing with 

 his exterior conformation, and proceeding to a de- 

 fcription of the internal parts ; comparing them with 

 thofe of the ox, flieep, and dog; and accompanying 

 the whole with plates, illuftrative of the fubjeds de- 

 fcribed, drawn from the fubjefts by the author. 



Part III. is intended to teach the pra(!:lice of 

 this art, by a fyftematic arrangement of the difeafes 

 of the horfe into twenty clalTes, united with a more 

 concife account of thofe of the ox, fheep, and dog. 

 The plan of medical treatment laid down and dired- 

 ed will be found entirely new ; founded on reafon and 

 fcience, and confonant to the late great improve- 

 ments in this important branch of healing : the whole 

 being attempted in fuch a manner as to prove eafy 



