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For want of due attention to thefe falutary 

 confiderations, many fine and valuable horles 

 have been haftily and dldtatorially fentenced 

 to pafs that " bourn from ud"ience no traveller 

 ** returns !" And here it can neither be thought 

 inapplicable or intrufive to remind every per- 

 fon employed in the pradice, under the deno- 

 ^mination of farrier, that frequently upon 

 "his learned dectjlon alone depends the LIFE or 

 DEATH of this moil valuable animal. He 

 fliould not only be accurately nice in the dif- 

 crimination of difeafe; but, by attending mi- 

 nutely to circumftances, endeavour to develope 

 the myfterious indications of Nature, cover all 

 her wants, and flrengthen every effort ^ for 

 jfhe is tenacious of her many powerful privi- 

 leges, and will not bear too *' infolent a moni- 

 " tor." Tq become the more adequate to this 

 tafk of integrity, he fhould be anxioufly careful 

 to improve his judgment, and adopt the knov/n 

 qualities of medicines to the expectation 

 of their effedls ; to have in visw, upon every 

 emergency, the operations from which certain 

 or probable relief is to be obtained ; and to 

 promote thofe ends by tvtxy fair and gentle 

 means that may be juftified by circumdances 

 01: didated by difcretion. 



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