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have greatly embarrajfed the gentleman 

 ' Jludent, Should fofne of them he thought 

 too expenfive, we defire it may be re- 

 membered^ that^ as we have jludied 

 to cure in the Jhortefl method^ perhaps 

 there may be little reafon for complai?it 

 in the events efpecially when the ex^ 

 pence of the dearefl of them is compared 

 with a farrier s bill : 'Though we have 

 feldom dire&ed any of this fort, without 

 giving the common cheap forms with 

 them \ and left the alternative to the 

 circumftance of the reader^ and the value 

 of his horfe. 



WE beg leave however to obferve^ 

 that the writers on the difeafes of horfes 

 are often toofanguine in the virtues they 

 cfcribe to particular medicines^ and 

 drugs ; and too warm in the ajjertions 

 of their particular fuccefs in their 

 practice and experience. But how are 

 we often difappointed^ when we come to 

 com^pare ihefe objervations with our own 

 experience I Nor is this fo much to be 

 wofjdered at when we refe6i that no 

 man by his own praBice can acquire a 

 fuffcient knowledge of the virtues of one- 

 tenth 



