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land about the end of that year, probably upon military 
duty; and fo-me of his letters contain humorous defcrip- 
tions of tli'e manners and cudomsof that country. He 
feems, in London, to have lived much with the players; 
and it is Laid that he fir It brought the celebrated aCtrefs 
Mrs. Oldfield upon the ftage. In 1701 appeared his Sir 
Harry Wildair, a fequel of the former comedy, but, like 
molt feccnd parts, lets fuccefsful. He publifhed in the 
next year a volume of Mifcellanies, confiding of Poems, 
Letters, E flays, &c. fome ferious, others fportive, and in 
general lively and amufing. His comedy of The Incon- 
iiant, or the Way to win him, was aided in 1703. It was 
well received, though in great part borrowed from one of 
the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. A farce, entitled 
The Stage Coach, in which he was a partner with Mot- 
teux, and his fifth comedy, The Twin Rivals, were, pro- 
duced in fuccedion. His official employment in railing 
recruits, which he for fome time followed in Shroplhire, 
is fuppofed to have luggeded the fubjecl of his next co¬ 
medy, The Recruiting Officer, ailed in 1706. Heclofed 
his career with The Beaux Stratagem ; which, though 
compofed, it is faid., in fix weeks, and under the depref- 
fion of a rooted illnefs, is ufually reckoned his mafter- 
piece. His neceffities obliged him to part with Iris com- 
million ; and, under the painful reflection of leaving two 
unprovided daughters, lie died in April, 1707, before he 
had completed his thirtieth year, and during the fuccefs¬ 
ful run Of his laft performance. His comedies do not add 
much to the delineation of real character:; nor can they 
compare in witto thofe of Congreve ; but they are fpright- 
]y, pleafant, and natural ; interefting, though not always 
probable, in their plots, and eafy in their dialogue. They 
are deeply tainted with the lioentioufnefs wliich charae- 
terifed almofl all the Englidi comedies of that period ; 
and though lefs grofs in the language than fome others, 
are too much calculated to promote libertinifm. 
FARR, a fmall fea-port of Scotland, in the county of 
Sutherland, on a bay to which it gives name, in which is 
a good falmon fidtery : thirty-eight miles north of Dor¬ 
noch. 
FARR BAY, a bay of the North Sea, on the north 
coaft of Scotland, in the county of Sutherland. Lat. 58. 
29. N. Ion. o. 50. W. Edinburgh. 
FARRA'GINOUS, adj. [jarrago, I,at.] Formed of 
different materials.—Being a confulion of knaves and 
fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tem¬ 
pers, fexes, and ages, it is but natural if their determina¬ 
tions be monltrous, and many ways inconfiftent with truth. 
Brown. 
FARRA'GO,/! [Latin.] A mafs formed confufedly 
of feveral ingredients ; a medley. 
FAR'RAR, a town of United America, in the date of 
South Carolina two miles fouth of Amelia. 
FAR'RIER, f. \_ferrier. , Fr. ferrarius , Lat.] A dioer 
of horfes.—The utmod exaCtnefs in thefe particulars be¬ 
longs to farriers , fadlers, fmiths, &c. Digby. —One who 
profefles the medicine of horfes.—If you are a piece of a 
farrier , as every groom ought to be, get fack, or ffrong- 
beer, to rub your horfes. Swift. 
To FAR'RIER, v. n. To praCtife phyfic or furgery on 
horfes.—There are many pretenders to the art of farrier, 
ing and cowleeching, yet many of them are very ignorant. 
Mortimer. 
FAR'RIERING, - /! The practice of phyfic and fur¬ 
gery on horfes ; farriery. Mortimer. 
FAR'RIERY, f. [corrupted from ferriery, and derived 
from ferrer, Fr. and that from the radical ferrum , Lat. 
iron.] A word employed to denote the economy and no- 
fology of the horfe. In driCtnefs of language, however, 
the term only implies “ the art of making and affixing an 
iron dice to the horfe’s foot.” In French, the word kip- 
piatrique, from hippiatrus, Lat. of wiroc, a horfe, and icilgoc, 
a healer, comprehends every department of this fcience ; 
but we have no term in the Englidi language fynonymous 
with it. The word veterinary , being an adjeCtive alike 
applicable to the nofology of the cow, camel, Sc c. it fol¬ 
lows that the veterinarian, veterinarius, Lat. is one (killed 
in the difeafes of cattle in general, and not folely a hippia - 
Ire, or as the Englidi are obliged to tranflate it, a “ Pro- 
felfor of Farriery .”—This word, therefore we mud adopt, 
until fome more claflical and appropriate term (hall be 
coined by general confentof the Englifli phylologifts. 
Though this department of medical fcience has lain fo 
long in a date of degradation and negleCt, it did not want 
for men of great ingenuity and talents, as i.ts original cul¬ 
tivators. We have undoubted evidence to fhew, that in 
the infancy of pathology, medicine was indiferiminately 
applied to the relief of ail difeafes to which the animal 
frame was liable, whether they occurred in man, or in 
thofe animals which condituted his wealth, or were the 
aflbeiates of his labours. In thofe early times, many 
things concurred to attach the minds of men to the well¬ 
being of their cattle. They were then ufed as the great 
medium of exchange ; and the laws of religion, which 
rigoroully forbad the facrificing of any animal but (uch 
as w ere in the mod perfeCt date and form, confirmed the 
necefiity of bellowing due attention to their health. Chi¬ 
ron the Theflalian, who, from his (kill in horfemanfiiip, 
was called the wife Centaur , lived in the age of the Trojan 
war. This perfonage defeends to us as-the father of me¬ 
dicine, and the indruCtor of /Efculapius. He was, on the 
concurrent tedimony of antiquity, profoundly (killed in 
the medical care and management of cattle ; and although 
we may not affirm that the treatife on the hippiatric art, 
whicli Stiidas informs ns was current among the ancients 
under his name, was really his production, yet we may 
fairly infer, from their belief of it, the high antiquity of 
this art, and its intimate connection with general medicine. 
Among the writers who have more extenfively diftin- 
guidted thetnfelves in tiiis line, are to be enumerated 
among the ancient Romans, Vegetius ; who is Inppofed 
to have lived about the time of the emperor Valentinian 
the Third, in the fourth century, and is generally conli- 
dered the fame writer, whofe book De re Militari has 
been fo much admired, as giving the bed account of the 
military taClics and warlike weapons of the ancients ; his 
treatife De arte Vctcrinaria, is not lefs curious in the pre¬ 
lent age, as handing down to us the pra&ice of that fcience 
at a very refined period of the Roman empire. Columella 
has'alfo treated largely on this fubjeCt; he lived prior to 
Vegetius, in the fecond century, under the emperor Tibe¬ 
rius. Cornelius Celfus, about the fame period, is like- 
wife faid to have written on this fubject; but of his work 
there are no remains. At a dill more remote period we 
find Greek writers on this fcience, of confiderable note; 
no lefs than feventeen are enumerated by Ruellius, who 
was phyfician to Francis I. king of France. The furviv- 
ing fragments of thefe authors were edited by Ruellius, 
by order of his munificent patron, fird in Latin, in folio, 
in 1530; afterwards the original Greek text, in 8vo. in 
1537. To this collection, Ablyrtus, Eumelus, Hierocles, 
Pelagonius, and Theomnedus, are among the chief con¬ 
tributors : their writings confilt of diflertations on the va¬ 
rious difeafes of the horfe, beginning modly in the epido- 
lary form, with the ufual habitations in ufe among the 
Greeks. In thefe writers, the fymptoms of fome diforders 
incident to the horfe are pointed out with much acute- 
nefs, in which confids the greated value of their writings. 
Xenophon has alfo written twelve diort ed’ays, refpeCling 
the training, management, and external figure, of horfes. 
At the decline of the Roman empire this branch of 
phyfiology underwent the general fate of all the other 
fciences; and differed an occultation longer than almod 
any of them. A period of more than a thoufand years 
elapfed, without adding to, or even recovering, a compe¬ 
tent knowledge of this fubjeCt in Europe. During this 
oblcuration of fcience, however, but at an uncertain date, 
was propagated the art of (hoeing horfes’ feet with iron, 
and which at length became general ; an art that has been 
varioufly praClifed 5 though never yet reduced to certain 
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