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the talk of decifion was too arduous to under- 

 take, but in lefs than a month or fix weeks^ 

 was not to be exped:ed. — On the fourth day, 

 however, the fervant was difpatched for a fup- 

 ply of camplioraLed fpirits, and another bottle 

 of the embrocation, with information from his 

 maiter, that " the horfe was mending fur- 

 prilingly." In a few days after, having a pro- 

 feiTional journey to the fame neighbourhood, 

 I made inquiry a matter of convenience, and 

 found at the houfe that the horfe had fet out 

 upon his journey, with the family, in about ten^ 

 days after my being called in, from whence he 

 returned as perfedlly found as before the acci- 

 dent. 



From the circumdances of this cafe (amidlt 

 many others), I am induced to bring forward 

 an obfervation I have repeatedly made upon 

 the ufe oi opodeldoc in animals, where its mofl 

 elfential parts cannot come into immediate 

 contadt with the Ikin, as is evidently the ftate 

 of the cafe with horfes, cattle, dogs, &c. where 

 the hair, in greater or lefs quantities, upon the 

 integument, fo entirely abforb the foap in the 

 firft operation of rubbing, as to form an adhe- 

 iive obftrudlion to porous admiffion, and a 

 7 confequent 



