420 SUPPLEMENT. 



by thofe who formerly affe(fted to neglect the 

 fuperintendence of both Jiiids and jiablesy as 

 matters too trifling for perjbnal confideration. 



Such indifference is no longer to be obferved, 

 or complained of, among the moft opulent or 

 fafliionable; for the v/onderful avidity with 

 which the numerous editions of the Stable 

 Directory have been purchafed in this, and 

 rapeatedly printed in a neighbouring king- 

 dom, are demonftrative proofs that the fubjecS: 

 has acquired new life from fuch publication, 

 and that the medical and chirurgical parts of 

 Farriery are emerging very rapidly from the 

 rude and illiterate hands in which they were 

 originally placed. 



Upon this flattering improvement the au- 

 thor has to gratulate the public, as well as his 

 own fenfations, upon a feries of fuch uninter- 

 rupted fuccefs; for the great purport of his 

 publication may be confidered in a certain de- 

 gree gratified, when thefirft fortunes and abi- 

 lities no longer filently and implicitly fubmit 

 the nobleft and moft valuable animal on earth 

 to the ignorance and obftinacy of every unen- 

 lightened adventurer, but with a generous 

 I emulation 



