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RIENCE, the, latter recvulated by REA- 

 SON and OBSERVATION. 



For want of due attention to these salutary 

 considerations, many fine and valuable horses 

 have been hastily and dictatorially sentenced 

 to pass that '* bourne from whence no tra- 

 ^' veller returns!" And here it can neither 

 be thought inapplicable or intrusive to re- 

 ijiind every person employed in the practice, 

 under the denomination of farrier, that 

 frequently upon his learned decision ahne de- 

 pends the LIFE or DEATH of this most 

 va,luable anin^al. He should not only be ac- 

 curately nice in the discrimination of dis^ 

 ease; but, b}- attending minutely to circum-^ 

 Sjtances, endeavour to develope the mysteri- 

 ous indications of nature, cover all her wants, 

 and strengthen every effort ; for she is tena- 

 cious of her many powerful privileges, and 

 will not bear too '' insolent a monitor/' To 

 become the more adequate to this task of in- 

 tegrity, he should be anxiously careful to 

 improve his judgment, and adopt the known 

 qualities of medicines to the expectation of 

 their eftects ; to have in view, upon every 

 emergency, the operations from which cei;"r 



