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ing each, would be an endlefs undertaking; 

 fuch information or knowledge muft always 

 depend upon the judgment and attention of 

 the operator; for the dire6tions from books 

 are always doubtful, and feldom decifive. Nor 

 can it be believed that different horfes lamed 

 in /^/J/j part, ox Ji rained in that, will 2l\Jiept 

 halt, ox retreat in the fame manner; if fo, I 

 may venture to affirm the idea will be fre- 

 quently as lame as the horfe ! 



To afcertain the feat of difeafe to a certainty, 

 the judicious invefligator will depend much on 

 the EYE, mxoreon the touch; and, ifaffiiled 

 by obfervation and experience, h^ will very 

 rarely err in the effed: of his judgm.ent : fcr, his 

 minute examination being m.ade with a necef- 

 fary attention to concurring circumfliances, he 

 will feldom fail to convey a true flate gf the 

 cafe upon almoft every inveftigation* 



Previous to the final difmiffion of this arti- 

 cle, it may not be inapplicable to introduce 

 the co??ipoJition of a blister in great ell ima- 

 tion, and of a different form, calculated for 

 thofe who may be in fome' degree attached ta 

 \ht former mode of praftice, and indulge their 

 G 4 ^ douhta 



