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But this plan generally meets opposition 

 from the VULCANIAN ADVOCATES 

 for ancient practice, who would as soon re- 

 linquish their leather aprons as their opi- 

 nions. The prodigious and consequential 

 ceremony of providing the ale, powders, 

 izmfch, horn, and apparatus, with the addi- 

 tional pleasure of wasting or spilling half the 

 contents, are professional dignities not to 

 be readily given up ; more particularly the 

 (Operator s privilege of drinking a part of the 

 ale or sfroyig beer, to be perfectly convinced 

 it is not TOO STALE for the purpose. To 

 bring this digression to a speedy crisis, I 

 shall only beg leave to add, that twenty 

 years since, observing the general plague in 

 giving drinks, the constant and unavoidable 

 waste in the operation, added to the palpable 

 absurdity of giving the most nauseous medi- 

 cines in a liquid form, to constitute an unne- 

 cessary sickness to the animal, made- me re- 

 ject the practice, determining to adopt a 

 method more rational, neat, and consistent^ 

 so far as my own advice or influence extend- 

 ed. To this circumstance may be attributed 

 the very few drinks prescribed or recom-* 

 mended in the course of this w^ork ; the 

 aukward administration of glysters is like- 



