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tleman or sportsman on his guard against 

 their incessant obtrusions of medical judg- 

 ment ; having within the last few days heard 

 a most illiterate puppy of the class described, 

 propose the insinuation of lu?np sugar for a 

 defect IN THE EYE, without a single reason 

 to assign for the support of his recommen- 

 dation, but that '^ it was like enough to do 

 it good." 



This idea is too sublime and expanded for 

 a single remark in animadversion ; but surely 

 every proprietor of horses must find it greatly 

 conducive to a promotion of his own ease 

 and interest, if he would condescend to pay 

 such attention to this subject, as might un- 

 doubtedly contribute a proportion of confi- 

 dence to his additional knowledge ; and to- 

 tally exculpate him from the mortifying pre- 

 dicament of appealing to the barren capacity 

 of his servant in a matter of magni- 

 tude, whose understanding or instructions 

 he would not submit to consult, or even con- 

 descend to hear, upon much more inferior 

 occasions. 



There has always existed a diversity of 



