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the proper meafures for communicating, to the pub* 

 tic, thofe ufefitl hints that appeared in it upon the 

 moji important points of farriery ; being additional 

 difcoveries to what has already been ever made in 

 any country. 



'This author then has given the Anatomy of a 

 horfe's foot, and in the moji clear manner laid 

 down the different degrees of puntlures a horfe is 

 liable to, and their different confequences, which he 

 has carefully dcmonfirated by proper reprefentations 

 in copper plates, as well as amply provided for in 

 the method of cure, as far as human /kill and pe- 

 netration can go ; and in the whole, it appears 

 that he is very well verfed in the anatomical di- 

 flribution of the parts of a horfe, or has been 

 afftfted by fome able anatomift -, and from his ob- 

 fervations on the parts, he has found that farriers 

 were perpetually rowelling, cauterifing, and apply- 

 ing topical medicines to parts of horfes that had no 

 ailment, by their ignorance of fuch as were the 

 real feats of their dif orders'. 



Another important difcovery of this author is 

 his pointing out the true feat of the glanders, which 

 has always been thought a difeafe of the lungs ; 

 Mr. Bartlet, one of our Englifh authors has ap- 

 proved and adopted his doclrine, and has added 

 fome judicious remarks of his own upon it ; by 

 whicb he merits the thanks of his countrymen in 

 general. 



I /hall only take the liberty to add briefly a word 



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