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IS too generally concluded of the leaft value, and 

 treated accordingly. Inftead of mitigating the 

 fymptoms, they are conftantly increafed by 

 the very means that fhould be avoided; the 

 fouleft and moft injurious food is liberally fup- 

 plied — grofs clover hay — mixed chaff — and as 

 itiuch v^ater as the animal choofes to carry^ 

 are too often permitted, even without reftraint^ 

 and the defed: abfolutely encouraged to become 

 habitual, inftead of being alleviated, by the 

 very means that reafon dilates and difcretioii 

 direds. — Upon this fubjed: fee farther obfer- 

 vations, p. 400. 



CONSUMPTION 



Is a difeafe or complication upori whicri 

 very little need be introduced, but to keep up 

 the appearance of form, and pay the neceffary 

 and expedled compHment to cuftom. No 

 appellatiouj no defcription of difeafe, has been 

 more hacknied^ more projtituted and pervert ed,, 

 than the very name of consumption; it has 

 for ages been an excellent majk of myftery for 

 the doubts of the faculty, and no bad 

 explanatory fubftitute for the meaning of th-e 



Q^2 vulgar^ 



