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in ascertaining the state of disease *, and this con- 

 sideration ought to inspire us with carefulness in 

 employing the most celebrated remedies, since that 

 which restores the one might be injurious to the 

 other. Among those four breeds^ we frequently 

 find individuals variously affected from the same 

 causes according to their built, shape, or make (see 

 pages 4, 25, and 48), according to the constitution 

 and co-adaptation of the dam and sire : as age may 

 come on, accidents have taken place, or chiefly as 

 the individual may have been mistreated by his 

 unworthy master, the sordid farrier, or unfeeling 

 ostler. To all which important distinctions in the 

 state of his patient's particularities, we beg to call 

 the studious reader's most serious attention, while 

 examining his case, in order to regulate the remedy 

 most appropriately to the degree of attack. 



Reader ! In the two preceding chapters of this 

 treatise, more of the animal might undoubtedly 

 have been described, or the same subjects con- 

 siderably enlarged upon, and more parade of learn- 

 ing might have been displayed, but the reader would 

 not have benefited one jot by that course of proceed- 

 ing : he might, probably, have bewildered himself 

 (as many do) in the mazes which would then sur- 

 round him ; whilst the description of those parts 

 of the animal, which contribute but inferiorly to 



* That surest barometer of health, the pulse, would indicate an 

 approach towards fever in one individual, which might be the certain 

 standard of health in another. See " The Pulse," at page 179; 

 and further, in the Groom's Oracle, see Pulse, in Index. 



