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during the progress, that when any difficulty occurs it 

 will prove prudent to have recourse to the author's 

 personal or written assistance, in which case there 

 will be seldom any farcy so desperate but what may 

 be removed. 



Green food has a particularly good effect on this 

 complaint: putting a horse into tares or clover has 

 sometimes alone cured farcy : and when grass cannot 

 be had, the corn may be speared ; that is, wetted till 

 it sprouts, as hi malting. 



That kind of farcy which appears in the legs-only, 

 swelling them to an enormous size, is to be cured only 

 by a free use of the internal medicines, united with 

 warm fomentations of strong alum water. 



FEEDING. See Stable Management. 



FEET CONTRACTED. See Founder. 



FEVER. 



It is doubted by some eminent farriers whetliei 

 horses ever have what we understand by the word 

 fever, for they think that all the inflannnations of the 

 horse become local and confined ; as inflammation 

 of the lungs, of the heart, of the stomach, of the 

 bowels, of the bladder, kidneys, or any of the tho- 

 racic or abdominal viscera ; and, as such, they con- 

 sider all the symptoms of fever which horses present 

 as symptomatic only ; but whoever attends minutely 

 to these animals, will observe, and that not unfre- 

 quently, the disease of simple fever pervading the 

 whole frame, and scarcely more prevalent in one 

 part than another. When a horse appears dull either 



