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eazily remedied by the modern practitioner, and of the less import, Since their chief articles were 50 Judicious!y chosen, as to be, at this instant, in Common USC, either actyally, ar under the cover of Succedanta, The Same may be averred as to their doctrine or principles, and general practice, notwith- Standing certain exceptions, In which our Superior light bas at no rate been hitherto establiehed. Inu one most important particular, I fear we have retrograded of late years; 1 mean, by the adoption of that groundless contipental hypothesis of rhe inelasticity or immobility of tendons, which has been car- ried to Such a 5ystematizing height by our late veterinary wri- ters, as almost unreservedly to deny the possibility of hbrous relaxation, as a medium of debility: the consequence of zuch unphysiological ideas has been, that the tendinous, and liga

mentary lameness in the legs of horses are SuppoSed to be con

fined merely to'nßammation and tension, aßd the whole cure 10 consist in the Simple reduction of those, an error which is every day leading to the most ſatal conseguences- Oa this interesting topie I have Said as much as Dy experience would warrant, in the Treatize on' Horses, vol. 11. P+ 965, Second edition.

It has been ebjected to me, In alate publication, that Gib- 500 and Bracken äre my.favourite authors. 1 freely acknowr Jedge as much, and witheut having, 1 trust, the Sinallezt 0OC- casion t0 be ashamed of my motives, the chief of which are, that these good eld authors have written with good faith towards the public, and as independently as possible of private, and zntirely 80, of party or SysStem-mongering ends, The tarrier's or veterinary dispensatories, or Pharmacopaias, of Gibson and others, are obviously the least valuable of their works, Since ibe general pharmacopeias must answer the end, in a far more comprehensive and equally convenient way, to Such pers0ns as Can posably receive any benefit om publications of the kind.

We vannot guficiently regret, that thoze authors, who es» tablizhed 50 excellent a veterinary SyStewm for horses, exclu- Sively, bad not been excited and encouraged to proceed, and to extend their practice to our other domestic 301mals, in zyhich case, we Should not have been 50 egregiously at a loss, as we have Since been, and as we, at this moment, unfortu- nately continne« Be it our present business to remedy this defect; towards which end 1 beg leave to coutribute wy mite, in the following propositioDS.

'Three or four years Since, a respectable member of ths London Philosophical Society, W. P. Whyte, Esq. presepted, the public with the outlines of a plan of this nature,(See Ni- 1101509's Philosophical Journal,&c. which 1 understapd has