430 SUPPLEMENT. 



Jolly) of attempting their cure by perforation, 

 and endeavoured to inculcate, moji forcibly ^ the 

 only probability of fucceeding in the effort, by 



* performing the operation with a bijloryy and 



* the motion oi elevation ' 



After fuch cautions, fo earneftly urged, it is 

 ftrange to relate that within the circle of my 

 own pradice, I have been required to give my 

 affirmance in Hvo cafes ^ where very fine and va- 

 luable horfes have been irretrievably loft, and 

 doomed to the hounds they had fo nobly fol- 

 lowed, by the rafli and imprudent ofRcioufnefs 

 of two of the faculty, who, prefuming moft 

 certainly more on tlieir confidence than theif 

 judgment, facrificed to felf-confequence and 

 the deftrudtive lancet, hunters oijigureyfapioii, 

 fpcedy and vahie^ not to be exceeded in the 

 kingdom; ftrengthening by their imprudence, 

 the obfervation of a celebrated writer, * that 



* mere have died by the improper ufe of the 



* lancet than the point of the fword.* 



To prevent in future (if poffible) fuch con- , 

 temptible efforts of profeffional flerility, to 

 guard the unwary from becoming dupes to 

 their own credulity, and the dangerous efforts 



of 



