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*' When a horfe has had a fevere fall, &c. 

 and in a variety of other cafes which will 

 occur to the judicious pradiitioner." — This 

 propofition covers fuch a wonderful fcope of 

 pojfibility, and includes fuch a variety of la- 

 titude for the inquirer, that it is by fcir too 

 unlimited in its comprehenfion to admit a 

 tedious enumeration of remarks applicable to 

 even half the cafes that may be brought into 

 the fcale of imagmary probability. This will 

 forcibly affed: the judgment of every reader, 

 if he condefcends, for a few minutes only, 

 to recoiled: the ways a horfe may be affeded 

 by a *' fevere fall,^' are fo very numerous, 

 that the advice here given (in fo extenfive a 

 degree) mufl: prove conditionally dependent 

 upon, and be regulated entirely by, the opi- 

 nion of thofe to whom the fup'enntendance 

 of fuch cafes become fubjed, rendering every 

 farther remark upon this pafiage extraneous 

 and unneceflary. 



After the ftrideft attention to, and in- 

 veftigation of this fyi]:em, (anciently adopted 

 and tranfmitted, like domcitic property, or 

 profeffional implements of bellows^ anvil^ 

 hammer, and vice, from fire to fon) I feel 



impartially 



