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So far as health and condition are 

 preferable to difeafe, fo much the more dcii- 

 rable.muft prevention ever prove to the 

 neceffity of cure. The purport of the pre=- 

 fent undertaking will, therefore, be found 

 appertaining much more to fach parts of 

 ftabularian difcipline, as come under the 

 dillincSion of novelty, and not treated on 

 in a dire^ way, than at all applicable to the 

 inveftigation or cure of difeafe ; unlefs in 

 occafional allufions or medical references 

 evidently branching from the fubjecft, and 

 tending to corroborate and improve the in- 

 tentional uniformity of the. whole: it be- 

 ing the predominant wifh of ihe writer, to 

 render this publication fuch kind of colla- 

 teral appendage to The Stable Direc- 

 tory, as may conftitute in both, a com- 

 plete chain of ufeful and entertaining in- 

 ftrudion for the improvement of the fpe- 

 3 cies ; 



