R O W E L L I N G. 1269 



rator to no fmall (hare of profcffional repu* 

 tation. 



Thefe are privileges againft the power of 

 which there can be no appeal ; but if we 

 look into the operative procefs of rowels with 

 the eye of accuracy, and advert to their ori- 

 gin, we fhall find they were introduced at 

 a period much lefs enlightened : when the 

 great efficacy of alteratives was but little, 

 if at all known or eilabliihed to any degree 

 of certainty, more particularly to thofe who 

 arc generally entrufted with the medical fu- 

 perintendance of horfes ; that however expert 

 or judicious they may prove in the operative 

 parts of Farriery, muft feel themfelves 

 exceedingly mortified at knowing nothing of 

 medicines, their origin, preparations, com- 

 binations, properties, or effefl:s. 



This univerfal deficiency, fo generally ad- 

 mitted, to which the major part of their 

 profcffional errors may be juftly attributed, 

 now^ bids fair to be refcued from its dif- 

 graceful ftate of barbarifm, (under which 

 fligma it has fo long laboured) by a plan 



that 



