xvHi PREFACE. 



competitors, convinced, by experience, the ma- 

 jority Of FARRIERS admit the medicines that 

 can be purchafed cheapest to be much the 



BEST- 



Thefe circumflances are not intrcdaced or 

 hazarded as matters of opinion, but as palpable 

 fads tliat fpeak home to every reader of judge- 

 ment or experience j and fufficiently indicate 

 the neceffity of circulating, from medical au- 

 thority, the prefent improved fyflem of modern 

 compofition, univerfally adopted and generally 

 approved, to the approaching extermination of 

 empirical practice and daiigerms experiment. 

 This publication being undertaken to render as 

 plain and familiar as poffible a fubjed that has, 

 through almoft every difiertation, been obfcur- 

 ed by the mijl of ignorance and majk of fjiyjlery, 

 it is anxiouily to be deiired in future, that every 

 gentleman who has occafion to elucidate or illu- 

 ftrate his own underftanding, by calling to his 

 affiflance any of the learned tribe bcibre de- 

 fcribed, fo remarkable for their extent of com- 

 munication, will (previous to their adminilira* 

 tion of medicine) require an explanatory pre- 

 lude, with fatisfaclory information upon what 

 operations they frame their expedations of re- 

 lief 



