INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 49 



actually fuppofed them to have been the ori- 

 ginal offspring of his own brain. Whenever he 

 puts it in my power, I fhall be happy to pay 

 him a better compliment. 



But to our proofs — without which words 

 are vain, and may be defamatory and unjuft. 



To prove all that I have aliened, it will be 

 by no means neceffary to go through the 

 Stable Directory flep by ftep; fuch would be 

 a dry and tedious bufinefs: a few leading quo- 

 tations, from the moft prominent paffages, will 

 effectually eftablilh my pofition; any curious 

 reader who may require (till farther fatisfac- 

 tion, need but compare the Stable Directory 

 with the original writers referred to, and he 

 cannot fail of obtaining it, to the utmoft. 



By way of a general compendious analyfis of 

 " The Gentleman's Stable Directory," vol. the 

 firft, take the following. This original author 

 has made no addition of the fmallefl confe- 

 quence, to the lilt of medicines, or change in 

 the mode of adminiffration prefcribed by thofe 

 writers fo often cited, but invariably prefcribes 

 the fame, either literally, or in effect; ufually 

 indeed ringing the changes with fynonimous 

 medicines, but thefe (till fele£ted from one or 

 other of the authors; and making occafional 

 inconfequential alterations in quantities. The 

 whole fyftem of management he recommends, 

 is to be found (as hath been already obferved) 



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