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severe part of the winter, when a course of 

 mild diuretics is to be preferred, as particu- 

 larized in p. 75; remembering that wci^Aer 

 can be proceeded upon till the horse is so 

 much recovered in strength and appearance 

 as to render unnecessary any fear of local or 

 constitutional weakness. The mode of treats 

 ment here laid down, and strenuously re- 

 commended, is a system established upon 

 the principles of reason and reformation ; not 

 the eftusion of wild chimerical experiments, 

 engendered hy folly and promoted by igno^ 

 ranee, but a course of practice (exposed to no 

 lottery oi chance or certainty oi danger), the 

 result of attentive study, accurate OBSEliVi\^ 

 TION, and/o;?- EXPERIENCE. 



Having tlms unavoidably enlarged upon 

 the nature and treatment of such fobrile com^ 

 plaints as frequently come under common 

 observa-tion, J shall advert to the necessary 

 consideration of those diseases called epidemic 

 or malignant ; and ^re so termed from their 

 being in general contagious or infectious, 

 and at certain times local or fixed to parti- 

 cular parts of the kingdom; at other seasons 

 glmost universal^ bearing in either case the 



