328 Review of a ^reatife on Horfes^ and on the Moral Aug* 



and comment upon fome of the contents of his Pandora^ s box, but 

 which we .. .11 not prefent to the tafte, fmell, '^? f ngs of our 

 readers. Baret, De Grey, and Snapc, come next in order. 

 The Duke: of Newcaftle is mentioned, with a ftrange allufion 

 about the haf of a Jlately pair^ which we confefs ourfclves too 

 dull to comprehend. Sir William Hope is the laft in his lift: 

 of explodul writers, who, fince old Markham, drenched the 

 wretched horfe with naufeous flops, or configned him to ufelefs 

 torture in the hands of ignorance and brutality. 



Gibfon and Bracken are next mentioned with praife, as hav- 

 ing firfl eftabliflied veterinary practice on true medical prin- 

 ciples. Many others are noticed, as having publiftied on the 

 fubjedt ; but thefe two only are confidered as any way entitled 

 to the merit of originality. 



Of the numerous fuccefTors of thofe two favourite writers, 

 the opinion of our author fliall be given nearly in his own 

 words : * Of mere compilers, &:c. we have had many more than 

 quant. Jiiff. in the prefent century. Of thefe worthy labourers, 

 fome had perhaps a fuperficial knowledge of horfes, but none at 

 all of phyfic or furgery : others had a fmattering of medicine, 

 without any ki^owledge of horfes *, but molt feem to have known 

 nothing of either. * 



The Treatife on Live Stock, by the experienced and refpe£l- 

 able George Culley, is almofh the only work which efcapes the 

 reprehenfion of Mr Lawrence. This he properly characSler- 

 ifes as * the only original work of the kind in our language, 

 and as containing a moft: valuable fund of information. ' The 

 treatifes which have been publifhed by Mr Clark, his Ma- 

 jefty's farrier for Scotland, are alfo exempted from his op- 

 probrious lift:, and treated with confiderable and well merited 

 refpe<rt. 



Not to be tedious, we (hall now refer our readers to the 

 work itfelf, for the critical remarks it contains on the veterinary 

 writers of France. His next obje£l of attention, is the Gentle- 

 vmn^s Stable DireBcry, by Mr Taplin. And here Mr Lawrence 

 certainly affumcs the critic con amore. He alleges, that Mr 

 Taplin, * who profefles to teach an entirely improved practice, 

 end to exhibit remarks on the dangerous, and almoft: obfolete, 

 pra£^ice of Gibfon, Bracken, Bartlet, and Ofmer, has only com- 

 piled from thefe, in the moft barefaced manner, though endea- 

 vouring to conceal his plagiarifm under the cloak of downright 

 ribaldry, pretended experience, or affefted inventive. ' How 

 far thefe very ferious charges may be juft, we fliall not attempt 

 to inveftigate. Veterinary medicine and furgery are not pro- 

 feftionally known to us, i\ni the dry labour of comparing 



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