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hour of embarkation, amidft the incredible 

 confumption in the metropohs, and almoit 

 every part of England, to the amount of man^ 

 hundred dozens^ not a fingle complaint of the 

 inefficacy oi purgatives^ peBoralSy diuretics, or 

 any of the whole lift of his advertifed medi- 

 cines, has ever reached the author. On the 

 contrary, innumerable congratulations upon 

 their various good eifecfbs are conftant in arrival; 

 but as declarations bearing fo much the appear- 

 ance of fashionable attachment to felf-interejl, 

 will not be univerfally believed palpable proofs 

 of their genuine utility, the applicable intro- 

 duction of a few concife inftances of their 

 acknowledged efficacy, cannot be confidered 

 obtruiive, v/hen evidently and equally adapted 

 to the promiOtion of public good. 



Before I proceed to the inveftigation and 

 proper treatment of thorn wounds, pundured 

 or lacerated tendons, and their dreadful effedls, 

 it becomes abfolutely neceifary, I refer the read- 

 er to my conciufive remarks upon Wind- 

 galls, in the clafs under that head, in the early 

 part of the Stable Directory, where it will 

 be found how very emphatically I have repre- 

 fented the hazard, the danger (not to add th^ 



jolly) 



