The domestic animal's friend or, the complete Virginia and Maryland farrier, : being a copious selection from the best treatises on farriery now extant in the United States, in five parts. I. Advice to the purchases of horses - observations and directions concerning horses when travelling - ordering and keeping the running horse, according to the several states of his body - a description of most disorders incident to horses, and a great number of receipts for the cure of such complaints, in that noble animal, as are curable; including also directions for preventing many disorders that horses are subject to, &c. &c. II. Directions and receipts for the cure of most distempers in oxen, cows and calves: also a description of many of the complaints incident to them. III. Observations and receipts for the cure and prevention of most distempers incident to sheep and lambs. IV. Receipts and directions for the cure of most distempers in hogs. V. Receipts and directions to cure distempers in dogs. To which is added a number of receipts, known to be efficacious in the cure of many complaints incident to the domestic quadrupeds of America, that have never yet appeared in print.