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finiflied fpecimen. This will bring in the half 

 guineas rapidly, whilft the learned Layard lies 

 negle6led upon the flails, fcarcely worth poor 

 eighteen-pence ! 



Enjoying a public inftitution in the metropo- 

 lis, where veterinary fcience in all its branches, 

 is regularly taught and praftifed ; it remains 

 for thofe who intereft themfelves in the fafety 

 and well-being of our domeftic animals, to de- 

 vife and recommend the mod proper and ex- 

 peditious methods of a general diffufion of the 

 benefit throughout the country. I am about 

 to offer my mite, which will at leaft have the 

 merit of fmcerity and good intent. Farriers in 

 London ought to be advifed by perfons of in- 

 fluence, to allow their fons and apprentices the 

 advantage of attending the college lettures, 

 which are given, I believe, three times a week, 

 and which is indeed already praftifed by feveral 

 of good repute. There is little fear, that men 

 of this ftamp will be much influenced by ufelefs 

 and nonfenfical theories, but they cannot avoid 

 having; their fmall flock of ideas confiderablv and 

 ufefully enlarged. Thofe gentlemen of the me- 

 dical profeffion, attending the London hofpitals, 

 whofe deflination is for country pra61ice, will 

 furely perceive great probable advantage in the 

 acquifition of veterinary knowledge, even if they 

 have no prefent intention to profefs that branch 

 of medicine. Bufmefs, as is fometimes the cafe 



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