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the pleasing sensation of knocking your horse 



on the head, and most feeUngly acknowledge 



*^ theremed}^ worse than the disease." 



* 

 I shall endeavour to avoid this beaten 



track of duplicity, and not amuse my readers 

 in every page with ^* Gibson directs this/* 

 or *' Bartlet the other,'' but communicate 

 some instructions from the dictates of NA- 

 TURE and REASON, who have been hi- 

 therto most infamously treated, and most 

 shamefully abandoned through every system 

 of equestrian medical practice. In conjunc- 

 tion with this, it may not be inapplicable to 

 introduce a few observations respecting the 

 mode of administration I have long since 

 adopted, and endeavoured to strengthen 

 upon every opportunity. For instance, to 

 condemn and explode upon every possible 

 occasion the old and slovenly method of 

 giving medicines of almost every kind in 

 DRINKS, and the equally favourite admi- 

 nistration of GLYSTERS, where they can 

 by any means be avoided (which forty-nine 

 times out of fifty they very well may) ; 

 always preferring their incorporation with a 

 mash, or tlieir contents in a bal/, where cir- 

 cumstances will permit. 



