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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FARRIER , and FARRIERY (from See also:

Lat. ferrarius, a See also:black-See also:smith, ferrum, See also:iron). Farrier is the name given generally either to the professional shoer of horses or in a more extended sense to a practitioner of the veterinary See also:art; and farriery is the See also:term for his business. Primarily the art of farriery is identical with that of the blacksmith, in so far as he makes and fixes shoes on horses (see See also:HORSE-SHOES); he is liable in See also:law for See also:negligence, as one who holds himself out as skilled; and he has a See also:lien on the See also:animal for his expenses. See also:William the Conqueror is supposed to have introduced horse-shoeing into See also:England, and the art had an important See also:place through the See also:middle ages, the days of See also:chivalry, and the later developments of equitation. In See also:modern times it has been closely allied with the See also:general progress in veterinary See also:science, and in the knowledge of the See also:anatomy and See also:physiology of the horse's See also:foot and hoof. See See also:Fisher, The Farrier (1893); Lungwitz, See also:Text-See also:Book of Horse-shoeing (Eng. trans., 1898).

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