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juftified me in a former opinion, that nu* 

 merous injuries are fuftained, and ills inflid:-. 

 ed, upon horfes of gentlemen by the ha- 

 zardous experiments of grooms and fervants ; 

 who piqueing themfelves upon heterogene- 

 ous and felf-planned compofitions or obfolete 

 prefcriptions, increafe danger or promote 

 deflrudlion without detection. And what 

 renders the bulinefs a matter of more ferr- 

 ous confideration, is the unaccountable ob- 

 llinacy, pride, and Jialularian confequence 

 (of all other the moft difgufting) annexed to 

 their affe^ed knowledge and phyfical penetra^ 

 tlon. Too ignorant to be convinced, and too 

 rude to become fubfervient, expoftulation or 

 explanation can hold no weight in the fcale 

 of converfation ; confequently no reforma- 

 tion can be expected in fuch infernal fyftem 

 of domeftic deception and deftrudlive quack- 

 cry, unlefs gentlemen, for the promotion of 

 their own intereft and the fafcty of their 

 ftuds, will condefcend to exert their autho- 

 rity, and abolifh a cuftom in the encourage- 

 ment or permiffion of which they are fo 

 materially injured. To the eftablifhment of 

 tiijs \iS.^ a numerous catalogue of moft 

 iubftantial pro.ofs are within my own know- 

 ledge. 



