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Stantly adopted the views'of his Majesty, and bath uniformly dersisted to the present time. It would be atruly desiräble cir- Cumstance, I conceive, were that gentlenian to favor the public with another edition of his intelligent work on the Subject.

But to mitigate the enormities of price 1n any very es- Sential degree, would require a great length of time united with all he energy of exertion in extending the breed.

On the comparative weight of bone, I hope to offer 50ome observations for your next number, and remain,

Bath, Sir, Your obedient Servant, 17th June, 1805. NEHEMIAH BARTLEY. nem IEE Ertan

PROPOSAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CATTLE MEDICINE ONA RATIONAL FOUNDATION.

The followitg extract from Mr. Lawrence's General Treatize ow Cattle, we believe, will be acceptable to Such of our farming veaders, as have not yet examincd that valuable work. The Subject is ofmore immediate importance at this time, as we understand the author's plan 18 about to be put in prac- vice by Several Socicties of the higliest respectability, both in this country and in: Ireland.

OMEWHAT more tlian fourscore years Since, the great

K3 opprobrium of depending on the writings and practice of

we ignorant and illiterate in the diseases of animals, at least

he necessity of it, was removed, with respect to horses, the nhost important species, by William Gibszon, an army Surgeons of whom in vol. 1. Treatise on Horses, I have given the few particulars I could collect together, with an impartial charac- ter of his writings. Dr. Bracken, a pupil of Boerhaave, and a physician ar Lancaster, within a few years afterwards, fol- Jowed Gibson in the Same Courze,. Within thirty years after " the appearance of Bracken's books, William Osmer, a Surgeon and a Sportswan, published the improved method of Shoting horses of the French veterinary Schools, in itself, totally use- “Jes and impracticable here, but rendered of that excellent use which we atthis day find it, by the experienced and judicious Osmer's improvements. Gibson and Bracken established their veterinary system on Ihe analogy of human medicine(marking -“Certain anomalies) which analogy they had confirmed by a thorough knowledge ofthe borse, resultingfrom Jong practical experience. They particularly adverted to“ /he horizontal positien of the horse as contrasted with tlie"upright form. of "man" Thie best veterinary practice of this country has arisen irom their iustitutes, which torm a very Suflicient foundation on which to raise a fair Superstructure of general veterinary improvement. The only errors of consequence, hitherto dis-

-«overed in their writings, arg a 100 difiuze and redundapt

jrczeriptiun of modicines, the cOmmonu error of their tmes,