304 GLANDERS. 



where one stands, or is said to have lately 

 stood, with this distemper upon him. 



It again becomes unavoidably necessary td 

 make a few additional remarks upon the 

 boasted operation and discovery of M. La 

 Fosse, from which such great and extensive 

 advantages would have probaO/^ been obtain- 

 ed, had the ungenerous act been preverited 

 of taking away the lives of liis three patients, 

 after they had withstood the glanders, a 

 double perforation in (or drilling of) the sciilly 

 repeated zvashings of the brains with detei'gent 

 injections, and a subsequent regeneration of 

 parts: That the operations wa^/ have been 

 performed as described, and the horse (or 

 three horses) may have lived twenty-six days^ 

 I do not attempt to deny, nor is it in ??nj 

 power to disprove ; but this I will boldly 

 veuture to aiUhin, that the certain expense 

 ^nd hazard can be but a very slender /o^^(?rj/ 

 chance for any proprietor who may unluckily 

 have a horse labouring under the extremity 

 of this dreadful disease. 



I cannot believe, nor indeed do I expect, 

 disinterestedness can ever become so trulv 



