174 POLL EVIL 



yet as the subject has been so infamously 

 treated by an author before quoted, that in- 

 dignation becomes too justly excited to pass 

 it over without Such animadversion as may 

 tend to enUghfcn the mind, and rectify the 

 judgment of such as (from absolute want of 

 comprehension or reflection) pay an implicit 

 obedience to every absurdifij^ folly, or falsehood.^ 

 sanctioned with the authority of the press r^ 

 and conceive a certain degree of infallibiUty 

 appertains to whatever makes its appear- 

 ance in print. That these are the sentiments 

 of the lower class, is too well known to re- 

 quire corroboration ; and I am induced to 

 introduce a few REMARKS upon this sub-^ 

 ject by the inconsistent and unmerciful (not 

 to add infernal) advice held forth to practice, 

 in 2i pub lie a fie n that would alone entitle it to 

 the FLAMES and perpetual oblivion. 



We are there told, '' the poll evi/h an abscess 

 *' near the poll of a horse, formed in the si- 

 ^' news between the noil bone and the upper- 

 ^' most vertebrae of the neek.'' You are then 

 instructed to scald with a compound of ^' oil 

 ^' of turpentine, corrosive mercury, verdi- 

 " grease, Roman vitriol, green copperas, 

 '' and train oil :" these are to be poured 



