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mit, I shall transmit them, with the mode of 

 treatment that has hitherto (particularly 

 vmder my own execution) proved successful, 

 vv ithout a single loss, to justify a doubt of the 

 practice, when properly persevered in. 



It is now near twenty years since I com- 

 menced my observations upon the nature 

 and indications of the disease in question, 

 and found, by my inquiries from others, and 

 my own occasional remarks, the remedies 

 generally adopted and esteemed infallible spe-' 

 cifics were calculated so little to counteract 

 or remove the predominant symptoms of 

 distress in the animal, that it produced no 

 surprize, not more than one in twenty should 

 recover when attacked with the usual se- 

 verity. 



In my eadeavours to form some rational 

 idea of the origin or cause of complaint, I 

 could furnishy;om others not the least assist- 

 ance ; from all the information I could col- 

 lect, (even from the most confident and self- 

 sufficient) was, that the disorder was in the 



' heady and a green (or seton) in the poll, in 

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' the manner of an issue, was the only re- 



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