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pay an implicit obedience to every abfiirdity^ folly ^ 

 ovfalfeboody fandlioned with the authority 

 ofthe prejs', and conceive a certain degree of 

 infallibility appertains to whatever makes its 

 appearance in print. That thefe are the fenti- 

 ments of the lower clafs, is too well known to 

 require corroboration; and I am induced to 

 introduce a few REMARKS upon this fubjed 

 by the inccnfiftent and unmerciful (not to add 

 infernal J advice held forth to prad:ice, in a 

 publication that would alone entitle it to the 

 FLAMES and perpetual oblivion. 



We are there told " the poll evil is an abfcefs 

 ** near the poll of a horfe, formed in the finews 

 ** between the noil bone and the uppermofl 

 ** vertebrae ofthe neck." You are then in- 

 ilrudled to fcald with a compound of ** oil of 

 ^* turpentine, corrofive mercury, verdigreafe, 

 " Roman vitriol, green copperas, and train 

 " oil:" thefe are to be poured '' SCALDING 

 '* HOT into the wound, and ftitched up for 

 ** feveral days; and if matter -flows in great 

 *' abundance, and of a thin confiftence, it muft 

 ** be fcalded ^^^/>^;" 5cc. &c. This igno- 

 rant unfeeling attempt to arreft the judgment, 

 and IMPOSE upon the underftanding, is almoft 



too 



