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CONCLUSION 



It has ])ccn frequently and truly remarked, 

 tliat explanatory treatises on certain profes- 

 sional subjects, instead of elucidating those 

 subjects, tend but to involve them in greater 

 doubt and obscurity. Thus, such Works as 

 " Every Man his own Lawyer," and " Every ^lan 

 his own Physician," are supposed to have in- 

 creased, instead of diminished, the practice of 

 both those professions ; and as it is not im- 

 probable that the same result maybe anticipated 

 from the present publication, I think it neces- 

 sary to caution the Reader, not to consider this 

 work as containing any legal decisions, but 

 simply as a reference to the nature and seat of 

 those diseases, whicli, in a commercial point of 

 view, render the horse unsound ; and which, 

 in the arguing of a horse cause, are so often 

 perverted or misunderstood. No man, who 

 duly reflects on the iniinite variety of points 

 that perpetually occur in legal questions, (a 

 .variety so infinite that even all the liuge vo- 

 lumes of recorded cases are unequal to provide 

 against it), will be foolish enough to go to law 

 on no better grounds than the result of his 

 own partial judgment, drav/n from a strained 



