422 SUPPLEMENT. 



complaints of some, and anonymous expostu- 

 lations of others, upon the subjects we pro- 

 ceed to treat, as well as the personal super- 

 intendance and assistance the author has 

 been required to gi\'e, in these very cases, 

 singular; alarming, and even fatal, where na- 

 ture has been ridiculously checked, or ob- 

 stinately opposed, render superfluous any 

 farther defence for its introduction. 



Although the subject matter of this flrf- 

 dition is supposed to constitute a mere ani- 

 madversion upon lameness proceeding from 

 thorn- wounds, and punctured or lacerated 

 tendons, yet there are variety of experi- 

 mental observations, (however inferior, in- 

 dividually considered) that become equally 

 iiecessary to our present design of rendering 

 the work as nearly applicable as possible to 

 the wants or wishes of so very numerous a 

 body of readers. 



To justify, in a great measure, the mode 

 of practice to be inculcated, and hereafter 

 laid down ; to counteract the malicious or 

 prejudiced remarks of the interested or dis- 

 satisfied, as well as to establish, upon an in- 



