Those writers who have industriously _divided_ and _sub-divided_ the FARCY into so many _different diseases_, have not noticed a disorder (or rather a complication) partaking of the joint symptoms of both GLANDERS and FARCY; from which circumstance it has, by the best and most experienced practitioners, been denominated, FARCY GLANDERS, and is, in its attack, progress, and termination, precisely as follows. One or more swellings appear upon some part or parts of the body, where, after attaining a certain size, they become _indurated_, making no farther progress toward _maturation_. Here NATURE seems counteracted in her own efforts, and, by some inexplicable _revulsion_, the head is almost immediately and severely affected; TUMEFACTIONS appear under the _jaws_; the SWELLINGS increase in various parts and degrees about the _eyes_ and _mouth_; a most incredible discharge comes on from the nostrils, _discoloured_ and _offensive_ beyond description; in which state, bidding defiance to every interposition of ART, or administration of MEDICINE, the animal lingers a few days, and, if not previously dispatched, (as in fact it ought to be,) DIES a _mass_ of complete _putrefaction_.
FARRIER—is the appellation by which a person is known, whose occupation it has hitherto been considered to execute the joint office of furnishing _shoes_ for the PROTECTION of the FEET, and the BODY with MEDICINE for the _cure of disease_. It has been, from its original formation as a business, the most _dangerous_, _laborious_, and _least compensated_, trade (or profession) of any in the kingdom; consequently none but the most indigent or illiterate (from the _eaves_ of a _cottage_, or the _walls_ of a _workhouse_) could be prevailed upon to undertake it. In proof of which, it is a well known fact, that, for a century past, not more than _one_ in TWENTY of its practitioners, in either _town_ or _country_, has ever been enabled to leave a _clear twenty pounds_ to his family at the time of their decease. Recent circumstances have, however, occurred, to give the PRACTICE of FARRIERY a new complexion; but, unluckily, in the _extreme_; for the appearance of "THE GENTLEMAN'S STABLE DIRECTORY" a few years since, and the success of its author in his indefatigable endeavours, and energetic exertions, to promote a reformation in the shamefully neglected, _erroneous_, and _cruel_ system of FARRIERY, constituted such a blaze of national emulation, that the institution, erection, and establishment, of a PUBLIC SCHOOL, has rendered practitioners in FARRIERY (newly ycleped "_Veterinary Surgeons_") as numerous as the necessitous medical adventurers in almost every town and village of the kingdom. See VETERINARY COLLEGE.