TO 



EDWARD COLEMAN, Esq. 



i'ROFESSOR OF THE VETERINARY COLLEGE, 

 SIR, 



I humbly presume to place this short 

 Treatise under your kind protection, from 

 a confidence that you will view all its 

 errors with the eye of a father. I am the 

 more led to this, from the consideration, that 

 the Veterinary Art was in its infancy, and 

 wanted a person of abilities to display its 

 native beauty and utility - } when, fortunately 

 for these Isles, you was placed in a situation 

 in which your talents became of eminent 

 service to Mankind, in furnishing means for 

 the preservation of so valuable an animal as 

 the Horse. I am, 



Sir, 



Your most devoted 



And very humble servant, 



W. HIDING, 



