Excerpt from Farriery: A Taught on a New and Easy Plan; Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Accidents of the Horse; With Instruction to the Shoeing-Smith, Parrier, and Groom; Prescribed by a Popular Description of the Animal Functions in Health, and How These Are to Be Restore
Whatever person would consult these pages with profit should previously read the first book with care; for in it he will find laid down the 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. 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 alleged 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 proposed remedies can not possibly effect the cure. If he be imbued with the proper thirst after knowledge, be his station in life about the horse what it may, he had best to comply with the advice strenuously urged at the very outset, to examine the internal parts of dead horses, as often as opportunity presents itself, which, in the neighbourhood 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 whatever then appears worthy of observation, connected with the previous disease of the deceased subject.
Such was my manner of proceeding for several years. And next about the present volume, how I came to write it, and what were my views in the manner of executing the task that was rather imposed upon me by the booksellers than sought after by me; and which was, in effect, occasioned by the nature and quantity of veterinary facts and observations I had a long time been in the habit of heaping together.
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