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reduced to praBice, it muft afford the higheft 

 gratification in return, to receive corroborating 

 and well authenticated proofs of the confiftency 

 of its reformation, and that the confidence fo 

 generoufly placed in the medical inflrudtions, 

 has fuffered no proftitution or difgrace, amidft 

 their numerous trials and critical invefligations. 

 However liberal the candid and impartial part 

 of the world may have been in their encomi- 

 ums upon the original work (or congratu- 

 lations to the author), its contents could only 

 appear to the public as mere matter of conjec- 

 ture, (upon the propriety of which every 

 reader had a fubjftantial reafon to entertain 

 doubts), till fuch doubts were removed by a 

 repetition of faccefs, and a palpable confirma- 

 tion of the acknowledged utility of improve- 

 ment in pradice. 



Naturally reverting to one or another of the 

 cafes already recited, it muft be perfectly appo- 

 fite to repeat the abfurdity, the wonderfal in- 

 confiftency, of fubmitting the management of 

 valuable (or indeed any) horfes, to the ftrange 

 and inconfiderate experiments of thofe who 

 have no one qualification but their unbounded 



confidence 



