APPENDIX 



OF THE DISEASES OR THE HORSE. 



1. The diseases of the horse are as numerous and as 

 important as his complicated structure and the artifi- 

 cial state of his present mode of life would lead one 

 to expect. Until of late the treatment of these 

 diseases was confined to the hands of ignorant farriers, 

 presumptuous grooms, or shoeing smiths ; and the fate 

 of the animals was commensurate with the wretched 

 treatment they were subjected to. The establishment 



