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upon particular parts ; fplents, fpavins, wind- 

 galls, thrufh, ringbone, quittor, and a variety 

 of additional caufes that have already ^ or will 

 be hereafter fufficiently explained under their 

 different heads, and the moft expeditious and 

 efficacious method of cure pointed out. Lame- 

 nefs from njoounds or injuries fuftained hy JJ:oe^ 

 ingy come fo immediately and properly under 

 the infpeftion of the operative farrier, 

 that the leaft enlargement upon thofe fubjecJls 

 here might be very juftly confidered a matter 

 of fuperfiuity. 



I fhall therefore advert to that peculiar kind 

 of lamenefs, produced in general by the inat- 

 tention or inhumanity of the owner ; which, 

 unattended to in its firft flate, (and the original 

 caufe continued) enfures to a certainty the an- 

 nual deftrudion of many of the moft ferviceable 

 horfes in the kingdom. I allude, in this de- 

 fcription, to fuch lamenefs, or rather univerfil 

 debilitation of the legs and kti, as is the pal- 

 pable cffed: of too conftant labour without the 

 leaft reft or intermiffion. 



By inceffant labour, I mean to be under^ 

 flood that diurnal routine of flavery through 



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