The PREFACE. xi 



He is ivell aware how much he expcfes 

 himfelfto the cenfure of the little criticks^ 

 and to the fneers of the maliciciis amojig 

 his brethren ; but he begs thfe would 

 remember^ that to write pertinently on 

 the difeafes of horfes^ reqidres more me^ 

 dical knowledge and fliidy than may at 

 firjl be apprehended -^ a parity of re a- 

 fining being rcquifite in treating the 

 ptaladies of horfes and men. And he is 

 convincedy that fo nearly allied is the 

 true art of farriery to thofe of phyfick 

 mid furgery^ that it ?iever can be per^ 

 feBedy but onfmilar prijiciples ; arid of 

 courfe the fubjeB can ?iever be fo pro- 

 perly handled^ as by thofe who have 

 made thofe arts their Jludy* 7his will 

 evidently appear, by comparing only the 

 two laft treatifes in our own language 

 with all that have preceded them : 

 for though many ifeful ohfervations 

 and remedies may be picked up from 

 Blunderville, Markham^ De Grey^ 

 Soleyfely Gueriniere, Saimier^ 6c c. yety 

 for the 7710/1 party thir method is 

 irrationaly and not fowided on a tho^ 

 rough knowledge of the 7nechanum of 

 a horfey or animal ceconomy -, their 



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