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tdumphant, as to permit any farrier to be so 

 great an enemy to Iho own interest as to re- 

 commend DEATH, or discourage the expec- 

 tation of CURE, so long as circumstances and 

 the persuasive power of his ihetoric can jus- 

 tify the idea <jf hope ; but liow far it may 

 be worth while to encounter the difficulties 

 of anxiety, tedious expense, long sickness, 

 attendance, perpetual nursing, and the danger 

 of infecting whateiver horses remain in, or 

 may come to the stable, is more the duty of 

 others to consider tiran me to point out. 



Contracting/ therefore all the attending 

 considerations into one point of view, I shall 

 openly and fairly enter my opinion against 

 the operation of trepanning^ so plausibly held 

 forth with all its specious advantages. For 

 what does the whole amount to more than 

 this? — If the horse should absolutely reco- 

 ver, and (what is still more unlikely) become 

 adequate to the very purposes he was des- 

 tined to before the attack ; when the long 

 ii/ness, support, attendance, and farrier s hill, are 

 balanced against his value, he must be a 

 most excellent liorse, and verv much above 

 the line of mediocrity, to have the credit ac- 



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