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of obtaining a cure will not be fo fatisfadlory 

 to many of the ruftic lca?'7icd pradtitioners, who, 

 clofcly adhering to old cuftonis, old rules, and 

 old books, would rather attempt to force the 

 very blood unfecreted through the urinary 

 paflages, by a courfe of Spanijh files, or oil of 

 turpentine, than adopt any method, however 

 improved, in the formation of which their 

 extenjive abilities have not been confulted. 



By this abominable and infimous practice 

 the lives of many valuable horfes have been 

 taken away, the proprietor attributing to 

 difeafe what nine times out of ten is the effecfl 

 of ignorance. From an obfervation fo juft, 

 or, in fad:, a reflexion fo alarming, arifes the 

 palpable neceffity of this work, and the pro- 

 bable utility of its publication, to the very 

 ^.^reat number of gentlemen and fportfmen, 

 who, refiding in remote fpots, or diftant parts 

 of the kinr^dom, cannot have conftant recourfe 

 of farriers of judgment, extenfive practice, 

 and nice difcrimination. To prevent therefore 

 the frequent dreadful efFeds of confidence and 

 ignorance on one hand, or an injudicious ufe 

 of povverful and dangerous medicines on the 

 other, every man v/ill do well to intcrpofe 



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