sxiii The PREFACE. 



T^ H E chapters on Glanders and 

 Nicking, 'with the Plates and Ex- 

 planations annexed^ it is hoped, will 



prove both ujefid aiid entertaining ; 

 though we have been inforjned, that the 

 operation of Trepanning Glandered 

 Horfes was attempted in Eiigland 

 many years before M. La Fofes hook 

 was publiJJ:ed ; and probably was df- 

 continued-, for want of a thorough 

 knowledge of the parts affected in this 

 difeafe^ or from iwfuccefsful trials 

 made on horfes^ that might be in the lafi 



fages of this difemper^ and of coitrfe 



from the nature of them, incurable ; 

 but the Jlrong probability of fuccefs^ 

 in mojl cafes, it is hoped, will now be a 



fuficient tjiducemeftt to follow the method 

 here laid down, till further experience 

 can recommend a better r^ and be alfo 

 a farther incentive to our induftry^ 

 in bringing to ferfedlion the cure 

 of a difeafe, the moft jiaufeous and 

 dajigerous to our horfes, and that hither- 

 to has been a reproach to the art ofjar^ 

 riery, 



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