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that fhould have appeared with more pro- 

 priety under the article of '* Shoeing/' and 

 frequent ill ufage of Smiths, I am induced 

 to fubmit it to confideration before I take 

 leave of the fubjed: before us. It is what I 

 have ever thought a too unjuftifiable and great 

 exertion of ftrength, in the ufe and twift of 

 the twitch, when a horfe is put into that ex- 

 cruciating ftate of coercion for flioeing or any 

 other operation. In this extremity of pain 

 and humiliation, the eyes are frequently ob- 

 ferved agitated, even to the expulfion of tears, 

 from the great irritability, and greater ftimu- 

 lation of the nervous fyftem ; this is fo fel- 

 dom regulated by the falutary interpofition of 

 judgjnent^ humanity, and difcretion, that I 

 lliall ever retain doubts, from the obfervation 

 I have made, whether various defects in the 

 eyes, or a paralytic ftate of the optic nerves, 

 may not be very commonly produced by 

 fuch means, when attributed to more remote 

 caufes. 



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