THE 



EDITOR'S PREFACE 



TO THE 



READER. 



I N C E experimental philofophy has been 

 fo happily propagated by the learned of 

 our own nation ; it has been Spread and 

 adopted into all the feminaries of Europe wherever 

 the native curiofity 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 learning, ana 

 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 

 been heretofore committed to the care of the mojl 

 ignorant among mankind ; the great ufe thefe ani- 

 mals are of in the œconomy of life has at loft point- 

 ed out to men of fenfe and learning to take them 

 into their confederation : Comparative anatomy has 

 excited them, and the great Similarity of part s ', 

 A 2 offices, 



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