A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet : also, some new observations on the art and practice of farriery ; and on the nature and difference in the several breeds of speedy horses / by William Osmer.

  • Osmer, William.
Date:
1830
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    offer no apology: if they be not judicious, I ask not applause; if not requisite, I deserve blame; if impertinent, pity. Beyond these I have adven- tured some additions to the text, that are marked with the bracket, thus [ ; in two instances they are long, as the notes are many; and all are submitted to the same public ordeal as every other original composition. My own partiality for this author, which was suddenly lighted up in June last, may be distinctly enough traced to its source, by any one who will take the trouble to compare certain opinions main- tained in common by Osmer and myself, as the Humours, Mechanics, &c. and other minor coin- cidences that are not a little remarkable, which had already received place in my Veterinary Sur- gery. The ardency of this attachment, as well as its sincerity, may be estimated by the reader's turning to the last page of that publication, by which it will be seen, that I have been induced to lay aside for a time a much more extensive work upon which I was then engaged, \yiz. a Dictionary,] that I might give to this interesting volume its present dress. Up to this moment I have had in view the first three parts only of Osmers Treatise; of the fourth, on improving the breed of speedy horses, I make no commentary, nor affect any plaudits: I