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tion of " A Compendium of Farriery," written 

 by Bartlet, but am uncertain as to the fact, 

 and have at the inftant no means of enquiry. 



Ofmer bequeathed to his country a Treatife 

 on the Lamenefs and Difeafes of Horfes, which, 

 notwithstanding certain errors and excentrici- 

 ties, and his attempt to fupport the vain and 

 unphilofophic notion of the melafticity of the 

 tendons (whilft he allows elafticity to the fibres 

 of which thofe tendons are compofed) is gener- 

 ally excellent, replete with practical utility, and 

 the apparent refult of much experience. His 

 obfervations on epidemics in cattle, commonly 

 called diftemper, are well worth the attention 

 of the veterinary furgeon; but his fyftem of 

 horfe-moeing, and treatment of the feet, forms 

 the mod valuable part of his work ; on that 

 branch of the veterinary art he may indeed be 

 efleemed our original writer, from whofe ideas 

 our prefent improved practice has originated. 

 This facetious and good-natured writer (fuch 

 Ofmer feems to have been) alfo publifhed a 

 whimfical pamphlet, under the title of, " A 

 Differtation on Horfes," in which he affects 

 to be diflatisfied at our diftinguifhing that par- 

 ticular fpecies of the Horfe, deftined to the 

 courfe, by the ufual denomination of blood ; 

 contending, that we ought rather to (tile them 

 fine, or foreign horfes. In this fpecies he had 

 great (kill, accompanied by no fmall prejudice 



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