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' medy to be relied on/ Of this general con- 

 cise explanation and cure I so far availed 

 myself, as not to omit the inspection of a 

 single subject in my own neigbourhood, 

 where the received opihiofi might be justified 

 or disproved by the event. And I must 

 candidly declare, after months of the strictest 

 attenticHi, I never could perceive a greater 

 proportion than one in fen recover from the 

 supposeed effect of this iiifallible green or seton ; 

 and therefore we may very fairly infer, those 

 who recover under this practice derive their 

 cure much more from the assistance ^nd 

 efficnts of Nature, than the effect of so urj* 

 certaiti and inapplicable a remedy. 



Finding so little satisfaction or truth in 

 this part of the general opinion, I became 

 more anxious to discover how far ' the head,'' 

 as before- mentioned, was the seat of disease; 

 but, after everv minute attention, and inces- 

 sant observation (even with my own point- 

 ers and spaniels in succession), I could dis- 

 cover no one trait of conseauence, to justify 

 the idea, nearer than a tumefaction of the 

 glandular parts on each side the throaty 

 which, in a greater or less d^r-gree, affected 



