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 "^ secouis en negligeant de le consulter, et qu'ii pent 

 " tres utilenient servir a ceux qui se iivrent a la plus 

 *' importante branche de reconomie rurale, celle dc 

 '^ i'education des bestiaux/' 



THE DOMESTIC TREATMENT OF THE DIS- 

 EASES OF ANIMALS, 

 which I have called the domestic or imitative mode of 

 learning farriery, is not acquired altogether on these 

 grounds, for to study the art fundamentally, as it re- 

 quires considerable time, vAih great application and 

 attention, so it neither suits the leisure nor convenience 

 of the greater part of mankind, who, having either 

 Jiorses or dogs, might yet be glad of a nearer road to 

 the knowledge of their diseases and cure. This do- 

 mestic jjractice is theiefoie fitted for them; and con- 

 sists in having the diseases, to which the animals 

 treated on are liable, clearly and plainly described by 

 their distinguishing characteristic marks or symptoms, 

 whh plain practical rules for the treatment, and sim- 

 ple, but efficient, receipts for the cure. Now, these 

 descriptions, these rules, and these receipts, can only 

 be formed by a person fully aware of the subject in 

 its most extensive point of view; and such descriptions, 

 rules, and receipts, collected, will then form a 

 Domesticlreatise 0)1 the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, 

 enabling all persons not within the reach of a regular 

 veterinarian, or in cases of emergency, or in those in- 

 stances in which tliev may chuse to make trial them, 

 selves, to distinguish easily between one disease and 

 another, and, having so distinguished, to proceed 

 with ease and dispatch towards the cure, without 

 wading through laborious reasoning, long cases, or 



