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time, I mull beg leave to remark, that fo extremely 

 fond am I of dogs, and fo unconquerably attached 

 to them, that a much more opprobrious term than 

 that of Dog Do^or would not compel me to relin- 

 quifh my attention to them ; in which refolution, I 

 have the fatisfaftion of ftating, I am fupported by 

 the advice of fome of the moft eminent profeffional 

 men, and by the countenance of fome of the moft 

 diftinguillied characters for rank and fortune. 



An enlarged way of reafoning is a long time in 

 becoming general, even among a civilized and en- 

 lightened people. Till the eftabliiliment of the Vete- 

 rinary College, and the pradlice of the veterinary art 

 by men of education and refpedabiiity, farriery wa» 

 deemed a low and fervile purluit ; but at prefent, by 

 a retrograde ftep towards enlarged reafoning, it has be- 

 come ranked among the liberal arts : for, though its 

 practice is of fufficient importance to ennoble its 

 praditioners, it was not till the fituation, manners,^ 

 and character of fome of thefe praditioners had con- 

 ferred a portion of dignity on the fabjedl itfelf, that 

 it was even creditable to feem to underftand it, 



Prccifely as farriery or veterinary medicine then 

 was fituated, a curative pradice on the difeafes of 

 dogs now ftands. A perfon pradifing on thefe ani- 

 mals has hitherto been confidered as following a very 

 mean purfuit; and the very term of dog dodor con- 

 veys an idea remote from gentility : but it is not the 



