OBSERVATIONS. ^ S 



when circumstances daily evince to the me- 

 dical practitioner (or compounder of pre- 

 scriptions) the very great danger to which 

 some of the finest horses in the world are 

 constantly exposed, by the ignorance and ob- 

 stinacy of the parties to whose care they are 

 too generally entrusted ; every stable-boy, 

 aping the groom his superior, and the groom 

 the self -instriicfed b^arrier, all have their 

 heads and pockets stuffed with the quint- 

 essence of stupidity, collected from the va- 

 rious productions of antiquity, whose very 

 prescriptions are in themselves so obso- 

 lete, that many of the articles included have 

 been long since rejected as of no utility. 

 But as variety must be obtained to effect the 

 the necessary purpose, the invention is in- 

 stantly set at work to substitute new ingre- 

 dients, for those long since abandoned as 

 superfluous and unnecessary in medicinal com- 

 position. These alterations and substitutes 

 frequently form a most curious collection of 

 contrarieties — purgatives and resfririgenfs, cor- 

 dials and coolers, mercurials, antimonials and 

 diuretics^ are indiscriminately blended in one 

 mass, as a specimen of these wonderful im- 

 provements in the ART of FARRIERY! 



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