30^; COMPENDU'M OF THE VETERINARY ART. 



of flesh be neari}^ torn off, they should be 

 carefully replaced, and never cut off, however 

 unseemly they may appear to the farrier, 

 unless so much bruised as to be irrecoverable. 

 When the parts are so divided as to require con- 

 siderable pressure to bring them together 

 again, it is improper to sew the wound up, as 

 the tendency of the parts to recede from each 

 other would constantly keep the stiches upon 

 the stretch, and so irritate the wound as to 

 bring on excessive inflammation, and perhaps 

 ultimately gangrene or mortilication. The 



and patient animal, the estimable contribiilor to our pleasures 

 and comforts, vhen affected with some violent disease, in which 

 nature exerts her utmost efforts to relieve hersell": but how muit 

 this scene of distress be hciglitencd coTsld the proprietor bo con- 

 vinced, tliat tlic very men lie applies to for assistance only a^^ra- 

 vate the evil by tlieir ignorance !" 



The earl of Pembroke, whose judicious treatise on hor>c.^ 

 has been universally approved, seems to have been aware of 

 the mischievous tendenpy of encouraging these illiterate pie- 

 tenders, when he observes, " Wlioever lets Jiis farrier, groom, or 

 coachman, in consideration of liis having swept dun<^ out of his 

 stables for a greater or Jess nuuiber of yea:-5, ever e^ en mention 

 any thing more than water-gruel, a clyster, or a little bleeding ; 

 and that too very seldom; or j)rijtend to talk of the nature of feet, 

 the seat of lameness, sickness, or their cure^ may be xcvy 

 eertaiii to find himself vl•r^■ shortly quite oa foot." 



