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the most expeditious and efficacious method 

 of cure pointed out. Lameness from zvounds 

 or injuries sustained by shoeing^ comes so im- 

 mediately and properly under the inspection 

 of the OPERATIVE FARRIER, that the least 

 enlargement upon those subjects here might 

 be very justly considered a matter of su- 

 perfluity. 



I shall therefore advert to that peculiar 

 kind of lameness, produced in general by the 

 inattention or inhumanity of the owner ; 

 which, unattended to in its- first state, (and 

 the origmal cause continued) insures to a 

 certainty the annual destruction of many of 

 the most serviceable horses in the kingdom. 

 I allude, in this description, to such lame- 

 ness, or rather universal debilitation of the 

 legs and feet, as is the palpable eftect of too 

 constant labour without the least rest or in- 

 termission. 



By incessant labour, I mean to be under- 

 stood that diurnal routine of slavery through 

 the severities of every season, whether the 

 had roads ^ frost and snoiv of xcinter or the 

 sultry heat^ burning sands, and Jlinty roads in 

 mmmer^ without a literal or] e ative consi- 



