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prevent the weights bearing upon the affected 

 or painful part; there are lèverai expedients 

 which produce the fame effect; we may even 

 think of many others, for it is the bufmefs of 

 the artift; 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- 

 teftation and experience were convincing enough 

 to caufe a reformation in a pernicious practice, 

 which is fubject to fuch great inconveniencies ; 

 it would be the moil 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 practife 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 contradictions 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 objections 

 which have come to my knowledge about it. 



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