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siderately given or permitted to be taken, 

 either when they are exceedingly hot, and 

 the blood in a state of increased circulation, 

 or after being kept a considerable time in 

 extreme thirst ; when, in either case, it is ge- 

 nerally known they will swallow very large 

 quantities Mith the greatest avidity. And it 

 may not be considered inapplicable to ob- 

 serve, that since the former editions of this 

 work appeared in public, I have been twice 

 requested to give m}^ opinion and advice in 

 different cases of the Jfatuknt cholic, occasion- 

 ed by the inadvertency of servant boys, who 

 had unluckily brought on the complaint in 

 its utmost severity by the very means be- 

 fore-mentioned, as well as a singular case of 

 the strangury, by the horse's being continued 

 liis round in a mill, without permission to 

 stale, notwithstandmg his indications and 

 frequent attempts for that purpose. These 

 allusions are introduced merely to prove the 

 indubitable fact, that such instances occur 

 nmch more from inattention and neglect than 

 the effect of chance. 



Having communicated such information 

 upon the cause of these diseases as may prq- 



