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excellent article nitre, the purposes of which 

 are so frequently prostituted in its general 

 application, by all classes and in all cases, in 

 compliment to Bartlet's unlimited eulo- 

 giums ; who has not only, in a variety of 

 instances blended it in composition witli its 

 opposites in effect, but stamped it with hk 

 opinion so great a specific, that a few obser- 

 vations on its virtues and realuses become im-^ 

 mediately necessary to the propriety of its fu- 

 ture administration being better understood. 



OsMER was likewise so infatuated with it§ 

 reported perfections, that he became an ad- 

 vocate for its unlimited utility, and, like his 

 predecessors, pronounced it an infallible spe- 

 cific for all those disorders he condescended 

 to take a superficial survey of; urghig the- 

 administration of it to almost any proportion 

 upon every occasion, though, in the very 

 same page, he confesses some horses'' shall 

 *' not be able to take the smallest quantity 

 *^ without being affected with gripes or cholic, 

 '^ therefore it is always best to begin with a 

 */ small quantity/' 



That it is coofeo:, allays thirst, prornqt^s the 



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