SHOEING. 159 



Having taken a view of the kinds of 

 feet that conftantly pafs through the hands 

 of the Smith in his daily pradice ; and 

 knowing the various ftates and forms in 

 which they become fubjed: to his infpec- 

 tion, it is abfolutely impoffible, in all that 

 ever has been Vv'ritten, or can be advanced, to 

 lay down certain and invariable rules for the 

 exacfl management of this, or the direct 

 treatment of that particular foot^ without a 

 conditional reference to the judicious eye 

 and difcretional hand of the Ov/ner or 

 Operator. It muft prove palpably clear 

 to every enlightened inquirer, that no opinion 

 or dired:ions JlriElly infallible can be commu* 

 nicated through the medium of the prefs, ap- 

 plicable to every particular purpofe, without 

 proportional contribution from the judgment 

 of the parties concerned, to give the ground 

 work of conditional information its proper 

 effed. 



Such inftruftions, however accurately dc^ 



fcrihed^ muft unavoidably remain fubjedl to 



contingent deviations, regulated entirely by 



(he ftate of the foot and circumftances of the 



cafe; 



