INTRODUCTION. 



^ARRIEPwY, in an enlarged fenfe (now 

 ufually called the Veterinary Art), is the art of cur- 

 ing the difeafes of the horfe, and other domeftic 

 animals ; and, as thefe animals are effential to our 

 comfort, fo this muft be a very important fubjed, 

 and muft intereft every part of mankind. This art 

 may be faid to be learned in two ways, which, with 

 a little latitude of expreflion, may be called, tho 

 one, — the fcientific or regular mode ; and the other, 

 the domejiic or imitative mode. 



The fcientijic mode of learning farriery is that 

 which all perfons intending to pradife extcnfively 

 on the animals of others, as Farrieis, or veterinary 

 Surgeons, fliould adopt; and without which their 

 exertions can never be crowned with much fuccefs, or 

 eminence reward their labours. This mode of cur- 

 ing the difeafes of domeftic animals can only be gain- 

 ed by an intimate acquaintance with anatomy^ which 

 teaches the ftrudure and compofition of all the parts 

 of the- bodj-, internal as well as external ; with phy^ 



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