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immediate care and infpedion of the operative 

 FARRIER, whofejudgment or experience (hould 

 diredt him upon all cafes of emergency, as time 

 will not admit of reference to books; and even 

 with fuch afliftance, much more will depend 

 upon his experimental dexterity, or expertnefs 

 in manual operation, than any information he 

 may derive from literary inftruftion, when a 

 fudden exertion of judgment or fortitude is 

 immediately neceffary. 



Wounds may be divided into fuch a variety, 

 that to enumerate the lift of probabilities would 

 be to encounter the work of an age, and ferve 

 more to perplex than enlighten thofe not altoge- 

 ther adequate to the tafk of defining technical 

 terms or profeffional defcriptions. To enlarge 

 upon every probable means by which a wound 

 may be received, and from the variety of 

 weapons, or ftable inftruments, is an abfolute 

 impradicability; we will therefore *' take up 

 *' the mangled matter at the beft,'* and en- 

 deavour, by a very fair and extenfive explana- 

 tion, to give fuch directions as fhall enable 

 the profejjional fuperintendent^ or occajional 

 ajjiftanty to form a proper idea of the bufi- 

 j)efs, and make fuch efFedtual applications 

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