Jiology, wKich teaches the ufe and end of thefe va- 

 rious parts, and the general laws of the animal ceco- 

 nomy; with therapeutics^ which teaches the art of 

 curing difeafe, which is an unnatural alteration of 

 fome part, or a difturbance of fome funftion ; and 

 w'xih pharmacy , chemijlry and the materia medica, which 

 teach the felefting and compounding the tiecefiary 

 remedies. When the veterinary art is learned in 

 this manner, the pradice of it requires no fct rules, 

 no ready formed prefcriptions or recipes ; but the 

 mind of the praditioner is enabled to meet any cafe, 

 and to a6l from well grounded principles. This, 

 therefore, is by far the moft important and ufeful 

 mode, and, in fadl, is the only one by which either 

 farriers who pradife on the animals of others, or 

 even amateurs who praftife extenfively on their 

 own, iliould a6t. The importance of this fcientific 

 inveftigation of the fubjed has, lately, become fo 

 evident, that a regular feminary, called the Vete- 

 rinary College, has been eftabliflied for the purpofe 

 of teaching it : but it is not in the power of the 

 greater number of thofe perfons who may even wifh to 

 ftudy farriery in this manner, to attend fuch a length 

 of time from their homes, or to meet the expenfes 

 attendant on this courfe ; therefore it is neceflary to 

 devife fome other mode by which all the branches 

 before recapitulated, as anatomy, phyfiology, thera- 

 peutics, chemiflry, and the materia medica, may be 



