430 StJPPLEMENt. 



* performing the operation with a history^ and 

 ^ the motion oi elevation! 



After such cautions, so earnestly urged, 

 it is strange to relate, that within the circle 

 of my own practice, I have been required to 

 give my assistance in tioo cases, where very 

 tine and valuable horses have been irretriev- 

 ably lost, and doomed to the hounds they 

 had so nobly folloAved, by the rash and im- 

 prudent officiousness of two of the faculty^ 

 who, presuming most certainly more on their 

 confidence than their judgment, sacrificed to 

 self-consequence and the destructive lancet, 

 hunters oi figure^ fashioji, speed, and value, not 

 to be exceeded in the kingdom ; strengthen- 

 ing by their imprudence the ol)*ervation of 

 a celebrated writer, * that more have died 

 * by the improper use of the lancet than the 

 ^ point of the sword.* 



To prevent in future (if possible) such 

 contemptible efforts of professional sterility, 

 to guard the unwary from becoming dupes 

 to their own credulity, and the dangerous 

 efforts of hazardous' experiments, is much 

 more the motive of inducement to recite 



