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considered how very common an appendage 

 one animal is to the other ; so much so, that 

 in field sports their safety and perfections 

 seem not only to go hand in hand, but it is 

 difficult (out of the metropolis) to find the 

 possessor of a horse, or horses, that thinks 

 himself at all equipped without hounds, grey 

 hounds, pointers, spaniels, or terriers, in his 

 train also. 



Under the influence of this observation, 

 I can possess no fear of its favourable recep- 

 tion among those who fairly investigate the 

 rationality of medical iimovation, or con- 

 descend to court and patronize experimen- 

 tal improvement; presuming upon the nu- 

 merous and flattering plaudits bestowed upon 

 my former publications, I can hesitate but 

 little in submitting to inspection the obser- 

 vations I have made upon a disease, whose 

 annual destruction is generally known in 

 every part of the kingdom, with no other 

 description or definition in origin, cause, or 

 effect, than "^ the distemper-/' of which 

 having endeavoured for some years to form 

 an opinion with such accuracy as predomi- 

 nant symptoms and appearances would per- 



