The Gentleman's Stable Directory, or Modern System of Farriery: Comprehending All the Most Valuable Prescriptions and Approved Remedies, Accurately ... Which the Horse Is Incident (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Stable Directory, or Modern System of Farriery: Comprehending All the Most Valuable Prescriptions and Approved Remedies, Accurately Proportioned and Properly Adapted to Every Known Disease to Which the Horse Is Incident

To this caufe may undoubtedly be attributed the very great attention paid for fome years pit to the breed of the diftina and feparate Clafl'es for the turf, field, road, or draft and as their value has, in a very ibort fpace of time, abfolutely doubled. Their former worth, fately we ought to be proportionally anxious for their preferva tion wit ther for convenience, or attainment. The almoft incredible number of this truly va lnable part of the creation, that annually fall victims to the invincible confidence of thofe rultic ions of vulcan, (elf-denominated farriers, (with the thunder of whofe ignorance almolt every vil lage refounds) has for years feemed to implore the alliftance of fome intelligent member of fo ciety to come forward 3 and, by blending the ad miniftration of medicines with a practical know ledge of their [ira/remit: and effects, refcue the poor Mering animals from the confiant, invariable, and unrelenting depredations Of illiterate practitioner: and experimental [reg/ecutorr.

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