26 avery's own fakrier. 



pretensions of the kind. It is my object to be useful 

 rather tbanto appear learned; and I will offer to the pub- 

 lic the infornQalion I possess on the subject in question 

 in candor, and I hope in a nisftner to be understood. 



The art x)f healing, considered as a whole, is of great 

 importance (o mankind; and it has long been the custom 

 of many of our professional men to strip it of its sim- 

 plicity and mystify everything pertaining to it as much 

 as possible. ^ 



I have owned, in the course of my life, thus far, over 

 five hundred horses, both young and old, and have never 

 lost but one with any kind of disease whatever; many 

 of which I have raised from colts, and employed in most 

 kinds of business on, the road and farm, having conse- 

 quently often had occasion to exercise my skill (but not 

 to boast) in doctoring them for almost every disease that 

 the horse is liable to. For the last thirty years I have 

 been in the habit of recording the symptoms of disease 

 in the horse as they have transpired before me, together 

 with the remedies employed by me and others in curing 

 the same, which I think will be of use to me (and others 

 hereafter) in the work now before me; and it also fur- 

 nishes me with a catalogue of recipes that I have often 

 been solicited for; and there is not one of them that I 

 ever knew to fail in effecting a cure when properly ad- 

 ministered, for otherwise they would not have found a 

 place in the list. For some years past, I Kave thought of 

 making them public, but have deferred the matter in or- 

 der to obtain what further information I needed, and un- 

 til 1 was certain that I was right, for fear I might mis- 



