4 OBSERVATIONS. 



pracStice wonder leafl how the dog-kennel 5, 

 in every part of the kingdom, are fo amply 

 furniflied with horse-flesh. 



As an elucidation of this cii'cumftance, and 

 to corroborate the confiflency of thefe obfer- 

 vations, w^e need only advert to the treatment 

 t>f the human fpecies in the time of that lumi- 

 nary, the famous Sydenham, who was fo 

 much the celebrated favourite of his day, it was 

 ahnoft fuppofed he could do no wrong. It 

 being then a common pradice of his — to order 

 boldly THIRTY ounces of blood to be taken 

 from the arm of a man, v/ithout fear of mw^der 

 or danger oi pumjhment. And this is not alto- 

 gether likely to create wonder, when we recol- 

 left there is no law exifting to hang a phyiician 

 for error in judgment. Time and experience 

 have fixed the ilandard, according to cafes, 

 circumllances, and exigencies, from six ounces 

 to SIXTEEN, which is nearly one half the ori- 

 ginal evacuation ; fo that we find by this change 

 of quantity, the modern human body is f appofed 

 to contain no more than one half the propor- 

 tion of blood that ran in the veins of the 

 HEROES of ANTIQUITY, unlcfs the wliole 

 fyftem is entirely changed, as obferved by 

 2 Gregory^ 



