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A -minute and fcientific inveftigation or ana- 

 tomical defcription of all the correfponding 

 parts, their ad;ions, and' effeds, cannot be 

 the mod proper and confident method of 

 being clearly underftood by the very clafs or 

 claffes of people particularly interefted in the 

 explanation. Ruftic Farriers and unedu- 

 cated grooms cannot^ and gentlement will 

 ?2ot, embark in the dull and difagreeable ta(k 

 of theoretic or ptad:ical diffedtion, to difcover 

 the feat and appropriation of the tendo AchiU 

 les, or the articulation of the coronary bone ; 

 nor do I confider it more neceflary for a gen* 

 tleman to pafs through a ftudy of this kind 

 to afcertain a proper conditional method of 

 ordering his horfes to be Hiod, than to go 

 through a courfe of anatomical lectures and 

 phyfical inquiries, becaufe^ like the reft of 

 mankind, he is fubjedl to daily indifpofition* 



Abftrufe ftudy upon fo plain a fubjedl can 

 never be expefed from all the dalles fo im- 

 mediately concerned, it therefore becomes the 

 province of the writer, to reduce his inftruc- 

 tions to fuch concife, undifguifed explana- 

 tion, and mode of plain reafoning on one 

 K 3 fde. 



