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teiitive perusal, tliat the major part of such 

 pretenders to patronage merely possess abi- 

 lities sufficient to proceed in their im^ariablc 

 system of imposition, with views very little 

 beyond a constant and successful depreda- 

 tion upon the property of those who unfor- 

 tunately require their assistance. 



During tlie superintcndance of the case 

 before recited, many of inferior consequence, 

 but equally successful, intervened. A gen- 

 tleman of the iw^t popular eminence in Surrv, 

 communicated a complete cure oi grease in 

 one of his carriage horses by the strong diu- 

 retic balls, and a subsequent coui^e of al- 

 teratives, after paying a tedious and implicit 

 obedience to the dictates of a neiiihbourin<£ 

 farrier, without the /ecLs-f prospect o/'sncccs6\' 

 — Five instances have occurred in my own 

 neighbourhood '(exclusive of distant com- 

 munications) where horses have been almost 

 instantaneously relieved from the excruciat- 

 ing pain of cholic or fret, by the prescribed 

 balls, after failure of the diiferent farrier's 

 potations, most powerfully impregnated with 

 their favourite specific, gin and pepper ; to 

 which mistaken remedy, and obstinate at- 



