VI PREFACE. 



principles upon which all the subsequent details 

 are founded, how the process of nature is carried 

 on in health, and the cure is to be effected in every 

 species of derangement, by restoring the due per- 

 formance of those functions. Indeed, he should 

 study it hard, if he would become proficient in 

 " the Art of Farriery," and not rely implicitly upon 

 other people's prescriptions for the cure of any al- 

 leged disorder, which have been composed for the 

 most part without any such preparation. From 

 this neglect, also, symptoms of one disorder are 

 confounded with those of another, when the pro- 

 posed remedies cannot possibly effect the cure ; and 

 the anomalies and changes that occur in the course 

 of every attack are not watched and noted with suf- 

 ficient care. 



If he is embued with the proper thirst after 

 knowledge, be his station in life about the horse 

 what it may, the student had best to comply with the 

 advice strenuously urged at the very outset, to ex- 

 amine the internal parts of dead horses, as often as 

 opportunity presents itself, which in the neighbour- 

 hood of large towns and hunts is frequent enough. 

 For this is the manner in which I was myself 

 mainly instructed ; as well as by noting down what- 

 ever then appears worthy of observation, connected 

 with the previous disease of the deceased subject. 

 To pave the way for more erudite studies, I have 

 in this edition devoted a dozen pages of Introduc- 

 tion to the Study of Horse Anatomy ; quite ele- 

 mentary, and very slight, it is most true, but I trust 



