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periniental practice, the less reason I find to 

 be satisfied with what they ventured to pro- 

 mulgate ; particularly upon the subject of 

 humours ; which in all my inquiries and rfi- 

 nute investigations, I could never find syste- 

 matically explained, at least to encounter the 

 eye of professional inspection. 



Bracken, \vho for years was considered 

 as a prodigy of Veterinarian instruction, 

 after condemning the farriers' frequent use, 

 and the convenient subterfuge of the word, 

 makes many efforts to go through an elabo- 

 rate explanation, that he says, " the igno- 

 rance and stupidity of the vulgar are inade- 

 quate to \' but, very unluckily, after attack- 

 ing the subject in nine diff-erent zvuys, at least 

 in as many different places, he as repeatedly 

 digresses from the point, without ever com- 

 ing into the probabilify of an explanatory con- 

 clusion. 



Bartlet, in his usual condescending 

 style of imitation, (or rather compilation,) 

 affords six pages of duodecimo, replete with 

 technical abstrusity, collected from the re- 

 mote allusions and eccentric remarks of his 



