A new system of farriery : including a systematic arrangement of the external structure of the horse. Illustrated with copper-plates, representing the exact proportions of a blood horse, with a description of all the defects that tend to impede velocity. Likewise directions, for ascertaining, with exactness, the age of a horse, from his being foaled, till fourteen years old. To which are added, the improved mode of treatment, and prescriptions recommended by the Veterinary College, in every disease of difficult management. Interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous practice of country farriers, grooms, &c. and the method of curing the principal epidemic diseases to which cows, sheep, &c. are subject /