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grees may be occaiioned by blows or bruises 

 upon particular parts ; fplents, fpavins, wind- 

 galls, thrufh, ringbone, quittor, and a variety 

 of additional caufes that have already ^ or will 

 be hereafter fufBciently explained under their 

 different heads, and the moft expeditious and 

 efficacious method of cure pointed out. La- 

 menefs from wounds or injuries fuflained by 

 fioeingy comefo immediately and properly under 

 the infpedion of the operative farrier, 

 that the leaft enlargement upon thofe fubieds 

 here might be very juftly confidered a matter 

 of fuperfluity. 



I fhall therefore advert to that peculiar kind 

 of lamenefs, produced in general by the in- 

 attention or inhumanity of the owners which, 

 unattended to in its firfl ftate, (and the original 

 caufe continued) infures to a certainty^ the an- 

 nual deftrudion of many of the moft ferviceable 

 horfes in the kingdom. I allude, in this de-r 

 fcription, to fuch lamenefs, or rather univerfal 

 debilitation of the legs and feet, as is the pal- 

 pable efFedl of too conftaat labour without the 

 leaft reft or intermifiion. 



By inceffant labour, I mean to be under- 

 ftood that diurnal routine of flavery through 



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