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idea, Bartlet's fyflem may be adopted by 

 thofe whofe credulity can conceive that a courfe 

 of purgatives and diuretics will contribute to 

 the removal of corns or warts from the feet 

 or hands of the human fpecies. 



SPAVINS. 



Of tliefe there are two kinds, very diflinftly 

 explained by moft authors on the fubjedt, 

 and juftly denominated a blood and bone 

 SPAVIN. They both take their feats in nearly 

 the fame fituation, and proceed from the fol- 

 lowing caufes: — a blood spavin is a preter- 

 natural enlargement of the vein running on 

 the iniide the hough, and by the accumulated 

 fluid forms a fwelling that is pliant to the 

 touch, fubmitting to prelTure, becoming, in 

 the courfe of time, produdive of lamenefs. 

 Thefe appearances, were they attended to in 

 their infancy, would (as obferved in the pre- 

 ceding article) immediately fubmit to a fre- 

 quent application of the following embroca- 

 tion ^ rubbing in about two table fpoonfuls 

 twice every day, and keeping on (when in the 

 E 4 ftable) 



