The PRE FA C E, 



confinM themfelves fo much to Cuflom, but have 

 fallen upon better Methods than thofe generally pre- 

 fcrib'd ; and we find feveral very good Remedies 

 handed from one to another, which are not to be met 

 with in Books ; but yet, as moft are unacquainted 

 with the Requifites neceflary for the right Ad mini- 

 ilration of thefe Remedies, they often prove as Wea- 

 pons in unskilful Hands, which may either do Good 

 or Hurt, as they happen to be right or wrong ap- 

 ply'd ; and if there be fome who know how to ap- 

 ply them better than others, yet while their Me- 

 thods are not communicated to the Publick, and 

 thereby rendered of general Ufe, the Art can be but 

 little advanced. 



From all which Reafons, and the frequent Com- 

 plaints of thofe who are the greateft Sufferers by 

 the Deficiency of this Art, we have been induced 

 to propofe this our New Guide ; wherein we have 

 not only delivered an Account of all the Difeafes 

 incident to Horfes, with the Method of Cure, but 

 alfo the Anatomy of a Horfe •, the Knowledge of 

 which being as neceflary to Farriers, as that of the 

 Human Body to Phyficians and Surgeons ; and we 

 are in Hopes it will meet with the more ready Re- 

 ception, becaufe the Attempts that have been made 

 of this Kind already by Sig. Ruini^ and Mr. Snape 

 late Farrier to King Charles II. have both been in 

 fome Meafure render'd fruitlefs -, the firft having 

 writ in a Language unknown to us, and at a Time 

 when this Art was in a Manner in its Infancy ; 

 and the other having never publifh'd any thing pro- 

 feffedly of Difeafes (tho' he fully intended it) but 

 only his Volume of Anatomy, which, befides that 

 it is very rarely to be met with, is alfo fo large, 

 and incumbred with fo many things foreign to the 

 Purpofe, asmakes it, in a great Meafure, unprofi- 

 table to thofe for whom it was principally intended. 



And 



