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immediate care and infpedtion of the operative 

 FARRIER, whofe judgment or experience 

 fhould dired: him upon all cafes of emergency', 

 as time will not admit of reference to books; and 

 even with fuch affiitance^ much more will de- 

 pend upon his experimental dexterity, or ex- 

 pertnefs in manual operation, than any infor-- 

 mation he may derive from literary inftru<flion, 

 when a fudden exertion of judgment or forti- 

 tude is immediately neceffary. 



Wounds may be divided into fuch a variety, 

 that to enumerate the lift of probabilities would 

 be to encounter the v/ork of an age, and ferve 

 more to perplex than enlighten thofe not alto-* 

 gether adequate to the tafli of defining technical 

 terms or profeffionaldefcriptions. To enlarge 

 upon eveiy probable means by which a wound 

 may be received, and from the variety of 

 weapons, or ftable inftruments, is an abfolute 

 impradicability ; wx will therefore " take up 

 <' the mangled matter at the bcft," and en- 

 deavour, by a very fair and extenfive explana- 

 tion, to give fuch directions as fhall enable 

 the projejjional fiiperintendent^ or occafioiial 

 ajjijlanty to form a proper idea of the bufi- 

 nefs, and make fuch effedjual applications 



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