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*' The horse reels and staggers ; his eyes are 

 ^* fixed ill his head ; he has no sense of what 

 *' he is doing ; he stales and dungs insen- 

 ^^ sibly ; sometimes he is immoveable^ with 

 ^' his legs stretched out as if he was dead, 

 ^' except only a quick motion of his heart 

 '' and lungs, which causes a violent working 

 '" of his flanks ; sometimes he has involuntary 

 *' motions and shaking' of his limbs so strons;, 

 *' that he has not only beat and spurned his 

 *' litter, but the pavement with it/' Here 

 is ample proof how much I might indulge 

 myself in playing upon the alternatives they 

 admit, so caustiouslij guarded with iheiv adverb 

 of possibility ; I could introduce a very long 

 chain of quotations in the same style of am- 

 biguity or duplicity, "plentifully interspersecl 

 with their favourite safeguard '' sometimes he 

 *' is up, and sometimes he is down ; and some^ 

 *' times he is hot^ and soJiietimcs he is cold ; 

 " sgrnetimes they recover, and sometimes they 

 *^ prove mortal," &c. but it Jms ever been 

 the iatent of this work to make the cause, 

 SYMPTOMS, and cure of every disease, as 

 clear as the nature of each case will admit ; 

 being unavoidably interspersed with medical 

 remarks and occasional explanations, where 

 tecl^nical terms could not be evaded ; I shali 



