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degenerating to au acrid serous vapour that 

 acquires malignity by its preternatural sepa- 

 ration from its original corrector. Thus ex- 



travasated and unrestrained, its^ morbid qEqcIs 



it 



-and virulence soon display themselves upon 

 the surface, with a severe and constant ir- 

 uiTATioN or itching; to allay which the 

 poor beast is eternally exerting himself in 

 perpetual rubbings, till with those, and the 

 loss of hair from the different parts, he bears 

 the universal appearance of approaching ex- 

 coriation. In this predicament it has been 

 the constant practice to get rid of one devil 

 by the application of many ; for instance, 

 quicksilver, aquafortis, oil of vitriol, corrosive 

 mercury, spirit of turpentine, sulphur ofvivum, 

 sal ammoniac, tar, train oil, and all the com-- 

 •bustibles that could well be invented for the 

 support of an everl2Lsting co7i^a^ratio7i in the 

 lower regions. 



Without enlarging upon this desperate- 

 mode of PRACTICE, I shall only acknow- 

 ledge it brings to my memory a passage from 

 that justly celebrated writer, who says 



*' Where the greater malady is, the lesser is not felt." 

 And I naturally conclude from the purport 



