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It was my original intention to have sent 

 this Treatise forth with a brief exposition of 

 every complaint and accident the horse is 

 subject to, which I had divided into thirty- 

 five classes, under a hundred and fifty heads, 

 but at present I am prevented doing so : at 

 some future period these may possibly be added. 

 On the request of an old acquaintance, not to 

 fail to subjoin a few lines on red urine, and 

 bursantee, I have dwelt a little on these two 

 diseases, though out of their place. 



I have now to acknowledge my thanks to 

 Professors Spooner and Morton, of the Royal 

 Veterinary College, for their very great kind- 

 ness in perusing the foregoing before publica- 

 tion ; Mr. Morton has, also, most obligingly 

 undertaken the trouble of seeing the whole 

 through the press for me ; and if there are 

 any little points not in strict accordance with 

 the views of these scientific gentlemen, they 

 are, perhaps, of no great importance. I can, 

 however, assure you my manuscript received 

 due praise, especially for the forcible expound- 

 ing and illustration of the Foot and Heel ; and 

 I therefore am entitled to expect the work will 

 soon realize me half a fortune ; in order to 



