The Preface. 



too hard for him: But the Character be 

 bore j the Weight of his Reajons y and the 

 Certainty of his Experience ^ were Proof 

 againji all Oppofition. 



To inflame -n one or Wo Things: The 

 Cufkom of Gartering for Foundering in the 

 Feet has been us*d among Farriers time out 

 of Mind • but he makes it appear y that \is 

 p^ore prejudicial than ferviceable. In like 

 ptanner y when a Horje is flraind in the 

 Shoulder they ufed tolie tip the found Leg y 

 to oblige him to make ufe of the affe&ed 

 one ; and if he ivas flraind in the Haunch ^ 

 they were wont to make him draw in 

 the Harrows : Now he plainly makes out 

 the Pernicioufnejs of that Cuflom^ which 

 only redoubles the Tain of a Part that's al- 

 ready opprefs^d. Farther y if a Horfe vo- 

 mits Matter at the Noje y they ufed to call it 

 the Glanders y tho perhaps his frothing but 

 a Cold : And even in the Glanders they 

 placed the Cure in removing the Kernels y 

 which are only the EflcB^ and not the Caufe 

 of the Diflemper • and then pretended to 

 thwart the Courje of Nature by repeated 

 Purgation. y twere eafy to nntjler tip an In- 

 finity of juch Difcoveries which are only 

 owing to the Stem? cle SoIleyfeL That 



