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fign to buy : For tlio' one of thefe (o ufeful Crea- 

 tures may trot found on hard Ground upon a Shew ; 

 yet if his Hoof be what we term a deep Hoof with 

 a narrow Heel, he ought to be refufed for it, if the 

 Buyer want one to ferve him a good while j but 

 fuch Horfes may do well enough for thcfe whofe 



Bufmefs it is to buy the D 1 and fell the D 1, 



and may ferve well enough on Roads that are not 

 too hard for their Corns. However, I mull tell 

 the Reader that fuch Kind of Horfes cannot be call'd 

 good for the Road, by Reafon the Road muft be 

 Pioneer firft of all good for fuch Horfes : For when you ride 

 fclorfes. one of thefe, you ihould fend a Pioneer before to le- 

 vel the Roads. 



It has been a Method long amongft Farriers, to or- 

 der a Stuffing of Ox or Cow's-Dung and Vinegar 

 for the Soles of the Feet in thefe Cafes ; but furely 

 thefe Fellows do not rightly confider the Virtues of 

 Vinegar any farther than deeming it a Cooler, and 

 therefore good againft a hot, furbated Hoof : But I 

 would have fuch People know it is not only cooling 

 but alfo reflringent, v/hich lall Property is diame- 

 trically oppofite to the Intention of Cure. And be- 

 fides, this vegetable acid Juice may by its eminent 

 cooling Quality, if ufed to a iict Hoof, caufe the 

 Horfe to founder, and go lamer than he would do 

 v;ithout fuch Application, v/hich benumbs him ex- 

 ceedingly in fuch Cafe?. Therefore you fee how 

 neceffary and requif.te it is for a Man v/ho under- 

 takes to prefcribe Medicines either imvardly or out- 

 wardly, to confider, throughly and with Judgment, 

 all the particular and different Qualities or Virtues 

 of every individual Ingredient in the Cornpofition, 

 otherwife he can never be fiid to prefcribe judiciouf- 

 ly ; for although at firft flight Confideration a Drug 

 may feem properly adapted for the Cure of a Dif- 

 temper, yet if we do but give ourfelves Liberty to 

 confider a little, wc fhall find perhaps that fuch Drug 

 is cndu'd v.'ith forne very different Qualities more 

 than wh?»t we v-X hril imagined. But to leturn : 



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