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ca,ry or other perfon of his connexion, who 

 txpunges,adds, or emends, as he fees neccffary, 

 and then arranges the " New and original Prac- 

 " tical Treatife," and puts it into intelHgible 

 Enghfh. To make things fquare, we will grant 

 the Do6lor an African memory, which had 

 ferved him fome fcores of years by way of com- 

 mon-place-book ; for farriers, I believe, feldom 

 make notes, unlefs it be under their cuftomers 

 names in the ledger ; yet I have known one, 

 who could never write fix lines of Englifli in 

 his life, publifli a very elegantly written pam- 

 phlet ! 



I have this inftant before me a very fmalf, 

 but high priced book, to wit 130 thin pages, 

 price half-a-guinea, under the name of Down- 

 ing, a Country Cattle-doftor of note ; the au- 

 thor feems to fet great (lore by his receipts, 

 and in truth they are in fome refpefts tolera- 

 bly judicious ; but at the fame time fuch as an 

 ordinary (lock of medical knowledge muft have 

 fuggefted. The obfervations are few indeed, 

 confidered as the profefled refult of many years 

 pra6lice, and the defcription and appropriation 

 of fymptoms fo vague and confufed, as to af- 

 ford little light ; but the Doftor deals in fine 

 words, which will doubtlefs help to fell his 

 book. Neverthelefs I freely acknowledge the 

 receipts, and the praxis recommended, much 

 fuperior to any ever publiflied before in our 



language 



