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increasing appearances of DANGER must 

 justify exertions of alacrity and forti- 

 tude. Enlarge your quantities and mul- 

 tiply your doses, aiding your judgment by 

 frequent references to the different prescrip- 

 tions under similar symptoms : proportion 

 your medicines by the dictates of reason and 

 the degree of hazard to which the patient is 

 exposed. 



Should any critical swellings or formations 

 of matter appear at the decline oi fever ot 

 epidemic disease, their suppuration and dis- 

 charge must be promoted by the rules laid 

 down under those heads ; observing if a 

 horse displays in his general habit (as eyesy 

 heeh^ &c.) a great degree of ybwZ/je^^, to em- 

 brace the first opportunity of carrying it off 

 by the insertion of a rowel, and a regular coune 

 of either aiifimonial or ihercurial alteratives^ 

 whichever, upon inquiry, may appear most 

 applicable to the case. 



On the contrary, should the oris^inal com- 

 plaint so relax the stomach, impair the di- 

 gestive powers, or debilitate the system, as 

 to produce an irregularity in habit, bearing 



