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with young pra6Htioners, may run fliort at the 

 onfet, and the leifure time might be both ho- 

 nourably and profitably employed in veterinary 

 praftice. Such meritorious and humane occu- 

 pation could not polhbly injure the medical 

 charafter of a gentleman in thefe enlightened 

 times ; on the contrary, it would be more pro- 

 bable to procure him connexions of the mod 

 valuable fort ; might be his pafTport and intro- 

 duftion to the families of fportfmen, and afford 

 him the opportunity enjoyed by Swift's happy 

 Parfon, to 



" Drink with the Squire .'* 



Surgeons already fettled, defirous of attempt-, 

 ing veterinary praclice, but from their fituation 

 not enjoying an opportunity of regular colle- 

 giate initiation, need not on that account be 

 difcouraged ; they have before their eyes the 

 examples of gentlemen both of former and the 

 prefent times, defervedly of the higheft repute 

 as horfe-phyficians and furgeons, and who have 

 owed their veterinary knowledge to their own 

 meritorious and diligent exertions. The emo- 

 lurnents of a certain veterinary practitioner have 

 been faid in print, to amount to more than 

 two thoufand pounds in one year. I have al- 

 ready pointed out the original authors, to which 

 recourfe may, and indeed ought to be had, 

 for information upon the fubjeft ; and have 

 endeavoured to afcertain their peculiar and 

 charafteriftic merits, by which I have faved 



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