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the dawn of the difeafe ; but I will by no 

 means admit the probability where the original 

 caufe has been of long fcanding, and no at- 

 tempts made to relieve. A little deliberation 

 will convince every reader, that a cure can ori- 

 ginate only in fuch adminiftrations or ckfs of 

 medicines as are evidently calculated in their 

 operations or efFecfts to reach, cleanfe, and re- 

 move, obflrudions in the very remote feat o^ 

 difeafe. 



Bleeding naturally arifes out of this ob- 

 fervation, and muit be repeated at proper inter- 

 vals, in moderate quantities, till diverted of the 

 coat of iize and livid appearance, that are cer- 

 tain prognoftics w^hen the hiJigs are obftruded 

 either by vifcidtty or injiammation. To pro- 

 mote the neceffary evacuations in the firft 

 inilance, to attenuate the vifcidity of the glu- 

 tinous obftrudled matter, and to deterge the 

 pafTages by a fiimulation of the folids, are the 

 only foundations upon which the hope or pro- 

 bability of a cure may be formed ; therefore 

 after bleeding, go through a regular courfe of 

 the mild purging balls (prefcribed after the 

 horfe's recovery from the article laft treated 

 on) 5 they are flightly impregnated with mer^ 



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