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uiunicate what will hardly be thought possible^ 

 but by those who know the circuuistances 

 to be well authenticated, iu my own neigh- 

 bourhood, where it very lately occurred, 



A valuable horse, the property of Captain 



W , having been under a course of the 



Pectoral Cordial Biills for a severe cold, 

 eleven had been givei; without the least dif- 

 ficulty ; but in giving tlic t\y'elfth and last of 

 the course, the servant not perceiving the 

 ball pass the gullet, erroneously conceived 

 the ball was lodged in the throat, and (ridi- 

 culous as it may seem) absolutely set most 

 uianfully to work with half a /jroi^fj; handle to 

 dislodge the ball, till he had so brujsed and 

 lacerated the surrounding parts, that ^ vio- 

 lent inflammation ensued, and it was not till 

 after the industrious efforts of a fortnight, 

 that the poor animal could be pronounced 

 put of danger from this neio and very extra- 

 ordinary mode of operation. 



To obviate such trouble, and to render 

 unnecessary the use of the idivntvs favourite 

 instrument, " a balling iron,'* (only calculated 

 to increase the ditficulty), 1 presume to in- 

 troduce such instructions for the adminis- 



