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For want of due attention to thefe falutauy 

 confiderations, many fine and valuable horfes 

 have been haftily and di6tatorialIy fentenced 

 to pafs that " bourn from v^hence no traveller 

 *' returns !'' And here it can neither be thought 

 inapplicable or intrunve to remind every per- 

 fon employed in the practice, under the deno- 

 mination of FARRIER, that frequently upon 

 his learned decijion alone depends the LIFE or 

 DEATH of this moft valuable animal. He 

 Ihouid not only be accurately nice in the dif- 

 crimination of difeafe 5 but, by attending mi- 

 nutely to circumilances, endeavour to deve- 

 lope the myfterious indications of Nature, cover 

 all her wants, and ftrengthen every effort 5 for 

 flie is tenacious of her many powerful privi- 

 leges, and will not bear too " infolent a moni- 

 ^' tor." To become the more adequate to this 

 talk of integrity, he fliould be anxioufly careful 

 to improve his judgment, and adopt the known 

 qualities of medicines to the expecflation of 

 their effedts^ to have in viev/, upon every 

 emergency, the operations from which certain 

 or probable relief is to be obtained , and to 

 promote thofe ends by every fair znA gentle 

 means that may be juftified by circumilances 

 or dilated by difcretion. 



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