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eiTiployed in writing a Treatife on Farriery, 

 from the practice of half a century: I (hall be 

 happy to find that it equals in ability the very 

 able, although concile one, of his anceflor. 



The laR pra6lical writer on this fubjett, is 

 St. Bel, in whofe work many curious obferva- 

 tions will be found : thefe remarks are intended 

 for the ufe of fuch profelfional gentlemen as 

 may be defirous of confulting the beft authori- 

 ties with as little trouble as may be. With re- 

 fpeft to the poffeffors of glandered horfes, who 

 may wifh to make experiment of the polfibility 

 of cure ; they ought to be aflured, that it is a 

 cafe which demands the fivill of the moft able 

 veterinary phyficians and furgeons, and that no 

 fatisfitlion can pofTibly be derived from the 

 random attempts of ignorant pretenders. 



The followins[ anatomical fatls, or opinions, 

 I have extrafted from Bracken on La Fojfe, 

 and from St. Bel. 



La Folfe. — " There is no communication be- 

 tween the brain and the nofe in the horfe." 

 This was by way of anfwer to thofe who held 

 thiC glanders to be a defluxion from the brain. 

 But his commentator controverts this pofitioa 

 of La Fojfc, who is fuppofed to mean no more 

 by it, than that the brain is parted from the up- 

 per part of the nofe by bones, and that therefore 

 there is no danger in performing the operation 

 of the trepan : there is a communication through 



the 



