?9i GLANDERS. 



I am induced once more to solict pardoii 

 af the Academy of Sciences, M. La Fosse, 

 and the admirers of Bartlet's theory, for 

 the introduction of this '' experiment and 

 *' improvement/' submitting the inference 

 entirely to those gentlemen who have (un- 

 luckily at this moment) gkndered horses in 

 their possession. 



It would be rather inattentive and remiss 

 in me to pass over the imcharitableness, or 

 rather cruelty of dooming to death the three 

 horses so trepanned, syringed , and completely 

 cured by M. La Fosse '' in twenty-six 

 '' days;" unless we are to conceive i\\Q j)os^ 

 sibilify of putting '' them to death" on the 

 tweiity-sixth day, to avoid their natural dis- 

 solution on th tivenfy -seventh, the better to 

 insure the honour of the boasted discovery, 

 and the additional '' approbation of 'the 

 '^ Royal Academy of Sciences." 



This possibility may be very probable, and 

 indeed is no unjustifiable or unfashionable 

 policy in physician, farrier, or quack, as 

 every newspaper amply testifies ; they daily 

 abound with singular, miraculous^ incredible 



