294 GLANDERS. 



It would be rather inattentive and remifs in 

 me to pafs over the uncharitablenefs, or rather 

 cruelty, of dooming to death the three horfes 

 fo trepannedy fyr'ingedy and completely cured by 

 M. La Fosse ^'intv/enty-fixdays;'' unlefswe 

 are to conceive the pofjibility of putting '' them 

 *^ to death'' on the twenty-fixth day, to avoid 

 their natural diffolution on the twenty-jeventh^ 

 the better to enfure the honour of the boafted 

 difcovery, and the additional ** approbation 

 *' of the PvOyal Academ.y of Sciences." 



This poJjibiUty may be very probable^ and in- 

 deed is no unjuftifiable or unfafhionable policy 

 in phyfician, farrier, or quack, as every newf- 

 paper amply teflifies ; they daily abound with 

 fingular, miraculous, incredible [imaginary^ 

 cures, conftantly effedted by mercurial or an- 

 timonial noitrums, but not 2i fmgle word of 

 the HUNDllEDS that annually fall vidtim.s 

 to the neceffities of medical adventurers, who, 

 \YiXh fortune fufficient to pay for an advertife- 

 me7it, half a icovc phials, ifolution of mercury^ 

 or a quart oi Joap kesy boldy commence their 

 depredations upon the public ; and this they 

 •^re now the more entitled to do by their 

 extenfive contribution to the exigencies of 

 9 government^ 



