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judgment refpecling the efficacy of certain 

 pretended fpecifics, in particular Mrs. Stephens' 

 folvent for the ftone, and the Ormfkirk remedy 

 for canine madnefs, has been fully confirmed 

 by fubfequent experience. 



The Doctor was himfelf a fportfman, well 

 known upon the turf, and in the habit of train- 

 ing feveral horfes annually. His two volumes 

 of farriery comprehend the whole of the fubjecl: 

 of the Horfe, excepting the military manege, 

 which he prpfeffes not to underiland ; indeed 

 upon the art of fhoeing he fays little, but that 

 little ferves to convince us that he entertained 

 the jufteft ideas upon the matter, and fuch as 

 are, at this inftant, prevalent with our practi- 

 tioners of bed repute. His books are gener- 

 ally, in all matters of importance, as applicable 

 to the occafions of the prefent time, as if writ- 

 ten but yefterday ; and the errors in them fo 

 few and infignifkant, that they are unworthy 

 the trouble of enumeration. Confidering his 

 great judgment in Horfes, as well as medical 

 knowledge, I (hall not fcruple to place Dr. 

 Bracken at the head of all veterinary writers, 

 ancient or modern ; an opinion in which I am 

 fupported by the judgment of the public, his 

 Treatife on Farriery having palled through 

 a greater number of real editions, than that of 

 any writer on Horfes fmce ; notwithstanding 



the 



