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cation. A minute and scientific investigation, 

 or anatomical description, of all the corre- 

 sponding parts, their actions and effects, 

 cannot be the most proper and consistent 

 method of being clearly understood by the 

 very class or classes of people particularly 

 interested in the explanation. Kustic farriers 

 arid uneducated grooms cannot, and gen- 

 tlemen will not, embark in the diill and 

 disagreeable task of theoretic or practical 

 dissection, to discover the seat and appropri- 

 ation of the tendo Achilles, or the articulation 

 of the coronary bone ; nor do I consider it 

 more necessary for a gentleman to pass 

 through a study of this kind to ascertain a 

 proper conditional method of ordering his 

 horses to be shod, than to go through a 

 course of anatomical lectures and physical 

 inquiries, because, like the rest of mankind, 

 he is subject to daily indisposition. 



Abstruse study upon so plain a subject caa 

 never be expected from all the classes so im- 

 mediately concerned ; it therefore becomes 

 the province of the writer, to reduce his in- 

 structions to such concise, undisguised ex- 

 planation, and mode of plain reasoning on 



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