484 SUPPLEMENT. 



* the manner of an iffue, was the only remedy 



* to be relied on/ — ^Of this general concife ex- 

 planation and cure I fo far availed myfelf, as not 

 to omit the infpe6lion of a fingle fubjedt in 

 my own neighbourhood, where the received 

 opinion might be juilified or difproved by the 

 event. And I muft candidly declare, after 

 months of the ftrideft attention, I never could 

 perceive a greater proportion than one in ten 

 recover from the fuppofed effedl of this 

 infallible green or Jet on -, and therefore we may 

 very fairly Infer, thofe that recover under this 

 pradice, derive their cure much more from 

 the affiftance and efforts of Nature, than the 

 effedl of fo uncertain and inapplicable a 

 remedy. 



Finding fo little fatisfadion or truth In this 

 part of the general opinion, I became more 

 anxious to difcover how far * the heady* as 

 before mentioned, was the feat of difeafe; 

 but, after every minute attention, and inceflant 

 obfervation (even with my own pointers and 

 fpaniels in fucceffion), I could difcover no 

 one trait of confequence, to juftify the idea, 

 nearer than a tumefad:ion of tlie glandular 

 parts on each fide the throat, which, in a 



greater 



