PREFACE. 



HILST the attention of the learned has been 

 employed in investigating the anatomy and diseases 

 of the foot, and making improvements in shoeing, 

 little progrefs has been made in the other parts of 

 the Veterinary Art, although it must appear ob- 

 vious to every reader, and to the world at large, 

 that a description of the cause and progrefs of the 

 diseases to which that useful and valuable ani- 

 mal the Horse is subject ; at the same time, point- 

 ing out such methods of practice as are sanc- 

 tioned only by reason, arid confirmed by ex- 

 perience, must be a very important acquisition to 

 the public. 



The difficulty of composing a work of this kind, 

 must appear to every one, when it is considered 

 that I have only the symptoms of a dumb irrational 

 animal to afsist me, ia distinguishing one disease 



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