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accuracy as predominant fymptoms and appear- 

 ances would permit, 1 fhall tranfmit them, 

 with the mode of treatment that has hitherto 

 (particularly under my own execution) proved 

 fuccefsflil, without a Jing/e /ofsy to juflify a 

 doubt of the pradlice, when properly per- 

 fevered in. 



It is now near twenty years fince I com- 

 menced my obfervations upon the nature ani 

 indications of the difeafe in queftion, and 

 found, by my inquiries from others, and my 

 own occafional remarks, the remedies gene- 

 rally adopted and efteemed mfallible fpecifics^ 

 were calculated fo little to co iinLcracl or re- 

 move the predominant fymptoms of difirefs 

 in the animal, that it produced no furprife, 

 not more, than one in tiocnty jQiould recover 

 when attacked with the ufual feverity. 



In my endeavours to form Ibme rational 

 idea of the origin or caufe of complaint, I 

 could i\ivm{h frojn ethers not the leaft affifl* 

 ance ; from all the information I could colle<3t^ 

 (even- from the moil confident and felf-fuf-^ 

 ficient) was, that * the diforder was in the 

 ^ head, and a green (or feton) in the poll, in, 

 I i 2 . * th§ 



