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as an apology to my friends and the public for my 

 prefent purfuits. 



Having been educated as a medical man, and by 

 the liberality of my relations having been enabled to 

 embrace all the advantages that an attendance on 

 numerous ledures, and a confiderable refidence at 

 one of the firfl hofpitals in London could aflford ; 

 and having afterwards pradifed with fome fuccefs as 

 a furgeon, both privately and in the army, it greatly 

 offended my relations, as well as furprifed my friends 

 and acquaintance, that I fhould floop, as they con- 

 fidered it, to ftudy and pra6life on the difeafes of 

 animals : but, above all, my attention to the difeafes 

 of dogs has given offence to fome, and occafioned fur- 

 prife in others. A furgeon is univerfally elleemed a 

 refpedable charadler. A veterinarian is now above 

 the vulgar. But a dog doftor is yet a complete 

 ftumbling block. Alas ! how long, how very lon^^ a 

 time it requires to completely enlarge the human 

 mind ! — However, as I fmcerely wifh to conciliate 

 all, I would beg my relations and friends ilill to con- 

 fider me as a furgeon, for I flill pra6tife in my pro- 

 feffion when called on. And thofe who think I have 

 relinquiilied the higher title of veterinarian, I beg to 

 inform, that my pradice is at this moment extenfive 

 among horfes, and that I am always willing to give 

 advice and afliftance in every cafe of veterinary prac- 

 tice I may be confulted upon. But, at the fame 



