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^* When a horse has had a severe fall, &c. 

 and in a variety of other cases which will 

 occur to the judicious practitioner/* — This 

 proposition covers such a wonderful scope of 

 possibility, and includes such a variety of la- 

 titude for the inquirer, that it is by far too 

 unhmited in my comprehension to admit a 

 tedious enumeration of remarks apphcable to 

 even half the cases that may be brought into 

 the scale of imaginary probability. This will 

 forcibly affect the judgment of every reader, 

 if he condescends for a few minutes only to 

 recollect that the ways a horse may be af- 

 fected by a '' severe fall" are so very nume- 

 rous, that the advice here given (in so exten- 

 sive a degree) must prove conditionally de- 

 pendent upon, and be regulated entirely by, 

 the opinion of those to whom the superin- 

 tendance of such cases becomes subject, ren- 

 dering every further remark upon this pas- 

 sage extraneous and unnecessary. 



After the strictest attention to, and inves- 

 tigation of this system, (anciently adopted 

 and transmitted, like domestic property, or 

 professional implements of bdlozvs^ anvil, 

 Jiarmner^ and vice, fiom sire to son) I feel 



