THE 



EDITOR'S PREFACE 



TO THE 



READER. 



I N C E experimental philofophy has heen 

 fo happily propagated by the learned of 

 our own nation ; it has heen Spread and 

 adopted into all the feminaries of Europe wherever 

 the native curiojity of mankind^gratified and improved 

 by an application to the liberal arts^ has prevail- 

 ed. It is to this we owe^ this day^ the benefits 

 arifing to mankind^ from the progrefs made in 

 phyfic and furgery \ it is to this we owe the remov- 

 al of prejudices in every part of learnings and 

 the replacing of it with certainties and plain 

 truths \ and it is in a word from this the recipro-^ 

 cal benefits accruing from one nation to another^ by 

 their improvements and inventions^ daily arife. 



However negligently the difeafes of horfes have 

 heen heretofore committed to the care of the moft 

 ignorant among mankind *, the great ufe thefe ani* 

 mals are of in the ceconomy of life has at laft point'^ . 

 ed out to men of fenfe and learmtg to take them 

 into their conjideration : Comparative anatomy has 

 excited them^ and the great fimilarity of parts^ 



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