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article treated on we produced a tolerabk 

 system of cruelty ; but in the farcy (as a 

 more perplexing disease and greater excite- 

 ment to judgment or madness) we have FIRE 

 UPON FIRE, or effectual cauterization 

 treble refined. 



As they advanced in danger they increased 

 in courage; and adhering invariably to the 

 general intention of "kill or cure'' they 

 dealt about them with the fire of Alars and 

 the strength of Hercules. Beoan with oil of 

 vitriol and oil of turpentine ; then euphor- 

 bium, hellebore, quicksilver, oil of origanum, 

 double aquafortis, and to sum up the whole 

 scene of consistency^ made open passages with 

 small hot irons, and touched with oil of vitriol 

 or aquafortis ; or opening the buds, put in a 

 small quantity of corrosive mercury, arsenic, 

 or Roman vitriol and sublimate, equal quan- 

 tities. '^Bnt,'' says the writer, *' let it be 

 *' remembered, that many a horse has been 

 *^ poisoned by these medicines ignorantly used, 

 ^^ and in too large quantities/* This very 

 acknowledgment (for which I confess I am 

 under infinite obligations) will serve to cor- 

 roborate my former assertions-^^that some 



