OBSERVATIONS. 3 



confideration, when circumftances daily evince 

 to the medical pradtitioner (or compounder of 

 prefcriptions) the very great danger to which 

 fome of the finest horses in the world are 

 conflantly expofed, by the ignorance and obfti- 

 nacy of the parties to whofe care they are too 

 generally entrufted -, every stable-boy, aping 

 the groom his fuperior, and the groom the 

 felf-mjlru^ed FARRIER, all have their heads 

 and pockets fluffed with the quinteffence of 

 ftupidity, coUedled from the various produce 

 tions of antiquity, whofe very prescriptions 

 are in themfelves fo obfolete, that many of 

 the articles included have been long fince re- 

 jected as of no utility* But as variety muft 

 be obtained to effedl the ncceffary purpofe, the 

 invention is inflantly fet at work to fubftitute 

 new ingredients, for thofe long fince aban- 

 doned as faperfluous and unneceffary, in me- 

 dicinal compofition. Thefe alterations and 

 fubftitutes frequently form a moft curious col- 

 le<flion of contrarieties— ^wrg-^/rc'^j and rejlrin^ 

 gents, cordials and coolers, mercurials^ antimo^ 

 nials and diuretics^ are Indifcriminately blended 

 in one mafs, as a fpecimen of thefe wonderful 

 improvements in the ART of FARRIERY ! 

 And thofe who are moft acquainted with this 



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