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prevent the weights bearing upon the afFedbed 

 or painful part, there are feveral expedients 

 which produce the fame effe6l; we may even 

 think of many others, for it is the bufinefs of 

 the artifl; but to this time I know of none bet- 

 ter, more ready, nor more certain, than the half 

 moon fhoe. 



I wifh for the benefit of fociety that my at- 

 teflation and experience were convincing enough 

 to caufe a reformation in a pernicious pradlice, 

 which is fubjedl to fuch great inconveniencies ; 

 it would be the moll agreeable recompence I 

 could defire. 



This is what I had to fay upon this new 

 method of fhoeing ; there are already fome of 

 my fraternity who pradife it ; and many gentle- 

 men of knowledge approve of it, and all I have 

 done myfelf in it for fix months, confirms to me 

 more and more that it is a good method •, yet I 

 every day bear many contradidlions from all ranks 

 of people ', fome condemn it from prejudice, others 

 thro' ignorance, and others thro malice. Some 

 farriers, and feveral coachmen and grooms are 

 againft this method ; I therefore think it my du- 

 ty, to anfwer in a few words, all the objedions 

 which have come to my knowledge about it. 



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