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the idea, they obhquely coincide in opinion, 

 by acknowledging it is much the fafeft way to 

 ^' feparate the found from the unfound, and 

 '^ not run any hazard with a good horfe when 

 " it may be fo eafily avoided/' Whether we 

 confider this as a neceflary caution, or a proof 

 of convidtion, the maxim is equally refpedt- 

 able, and ihould be conftantly retained in the 

 memory. Where there is the leaft reafon to 

 fufpe(fl even a probability of danger from the 

 very chance of contagion ; and more particu- 

 larly lince the prevalence of opinion has re- 

 duced the belief of infection to almofl: a cer- 

 tainty, no perfon can hardly be found fuffi- 

 ciently fool-hardy to place a found horfe in a 

 ftable where one ftands, or is faid to have 

 lately flood, with this diftemper upon him. 



It again becomes unavoidably neceflary to 

 make a few additional remarks upon the 

 boafted operation and difcovery of M. La 

 Fosse, from v/hich fuch great and extenfive 

 advantages would have probably been obtained, 

 had the ungenerous ad: been prevented of 

 taking away the lives of his three patients, after 

 they had withilood the glanders^ a double per- 

 foration 



