OQO GLANDKiib, 



ders, and then describe a seventh, and tell 

 us that is the ^^ real glanders/' It is im- 

 possible to pass over the Jinesse of the French- 

 man, or the kindness and credulity of his 

 copyist, without saying somethinc; in ani- 

 madversion upon this attempt to impose 

 upon the world in general, without even the 

 basis of consistency for a foundation. 



To take this business a little methodicallv, 

 it may not be inapplicable (without any of- 

 fence to M. La Fosse, or the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences, who so generously patronized his 

 great discoveries) to introduce a short story, 

 many years in circulation, of the celebrated 

 witty dean of St. Patrick, who, holding in 

 great contempt the learned acquisition of 

 F. R. S. addressed a letter to the president, 

 ** requesting ^him to take the sense of the 

 *' body upon the peculiar properties of he?np, 

 *^ that it should, upon application, im?ne^ 

 *^ diately cure a fractured leg !" This letter 

 (from so great a man) being communicated 

 to the'' FELLOWS,'' in full assembly, was 

 productive of sequestered studies, nocturnal 

 lucubrations, and various experiments to 

 alinost every individual ; numerous meetings 



