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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
subjects, so that he may be enabled, by dissection, at once 
to determine what part of the body is affected by lameness 
or a wound. He must next acquire a thorough knowledge 1 
of the exact situation of the internal organs, and their com¬ 
parative dimensions and structure. Attention must next be 
given to Chemistry, and the compounding of medicines, with 
the relative quantities to be administered to the different 
animals, which will depend upon, as above hinted at, the 
structure of the stomach and the length of the large and 
small intestines. Upon the character also of the nervous 
system will depend much of the treatment of animals, and 
the energy and immediate application of remedial means. 
Some diseases are slow in their progress, while others are so 
rapid that there is more art and utility in arresting them, 
than in a cure after they are fairly formed. But this 
can only be acquired by experience. 
It is not pretended that the knowledge above specified is 
to be found within the limits of this work, which is chiefly 
intended as a popular digest of all that is truly useful to 
the country gentleman and practical farmer, and others 
possessing domestic animals. We shall, however, in the 
course of the work, give illustrations of the general struc¬ 
ture of the Horse, with such other parts as should be 
generally known, and directions concerning their functions ; 
so that the classes for whom it is intended may have such 
a knowledge of the subject, as will enable them to act for 
themselves, in ordinary cases, and in others to qualify them 
for detecting the impositions too frequently practised by 
ignorant quacks 
