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^ttcntly met with people of sense and candour who (without giving 

 implicit credit to snch talcs) have appeared io he staggered by the 

 relation of astonishing cures, alledged to have been brought ahout 

 by the use of such medicines, as could not possibly have any effect 

 upon the disease, either from, or their nature the mode of their 

 application ; it is but right that I should observe in this place, that 

 DO confidence ought to be placed in the accounts of such pretended 

 cures. — For, I have no doubt, that the nature of the disease has, 

 in most of these cases been misunderstood ; and, even, if we admit 

 that, now and then, such remedies have been applied with apparent 

 success, in the true Farcy, yet, in a great proporfion,. of those in- 

 stances, the subjects of the disease, have been removed from hot and 

 foul siables, where it was engendered, and turned out to graze, which 

 circumstance, joined to the advantage of breathing a cool and pure 

 atmosphere, has been found adequate to remove slight attacks of this 

 complaint. Nevertheless, the recovery of the animal has been fre- 

 quently, tho* absurdly, attributed, to the effect of the charm or nostrum, 

 w^iich has been had recourse to. Having already asserted, that the 

 Farcy \s peculiarly the offspring of our ordinary stable management, 

 I must once for all observe, that too much stress cannot possibly be 

 laid upon this position, the truth of which, indeed, may be easily 

 supported, by the facts which every days experience affords to the 

 man of observation and reflection. It is, indeed, very possible 

 to hurry on an attack of Farcy or Glanders, solely through the 

 medium of hot and foul air, in an incredibly small space of time. — 

 Daring the former part of the present war, an expedition being un- 

 dertaken to the Isle Dieu^ on the coast of FrancCj in the course of 



