Excerpt from Domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs: So Conducted as to Enable Persons to Practise With Ease and Success on Their Own Animals, Without the Assistance of a Farrier, Including Likewise the Natural Management, as Stabling, Feeding, Exercise, &C., Together With the Outlines of a Plan for the EstFarreery, ii: an enlarged sense (now usually called the Veterinary Art), is the art of curing the diseases of the horse and other domestic animals, and, as these animals are essential to our comfort, so this must be a very important subject, and must interest every part of mankind. This art may be said to be learned in two ways, which, witha little latitude of expression, maybe called, the one, -the scientific or regular mode, and the other, the domestic or imitative mode.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.