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mote or increafe the difficulty it was intended 

 to prevent. 



Thefe particulars, trifling as they may ap- 

 pear to thofe expert in the pradlice, are never- 

 thelefs more particularly neceffary in the pre- 

 fent improving ftate of medicine, where re- 

 formation is making fuch rapid flrides, that 

 the adventurous opinions of ruftic farriers, and 

 the dangerous compofitions they provide, bid 

 exceedingly fair to encounter a partial oblivion : 

 and as numbers of the firft fporting eminence 

 have publicly declared their unalterable deter- 

 mination to comm.ence and continue their cwn 

 farriers y fuch directions cannot be too clearly- 

 explained or univerfally known. 



It will, previous to a continuation upon the 

 fubjefl, be perfedlly in point to obferve, it was 

 not till after a very rapid fale of the third 

 edition of the Stable Directory, that I en- 

 tertained the leaft idea of preparing my mioft 

 efficacious medicines for the accommodation of 

 the public in general; and even then the 

 thought occurred not more from the frequent 

 fupplies required by noblemen and gentlem.eri 

 ^t remote diftances. than an obfervaticn of great 



weight 



