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to oppress nature, by a compulsive secretion 

 and evacuation of milk from a mare again 

 advanced in foal, the more will the subject 

 in emhrijo be consequently impoverished and 

 restrained, when deprived o( its portion of 

 nutriment, then converted through another 

 channel, and appropriated to a different use. 

 This incontrovertible system of the animal 

 economy must be so evidently clear to the 

 most uncultivated comprehension, (accus- 

 tomed to dedicate but little attention to the 

 slightest indications of nature), that it be- 

 comes matter of admiration how so absurd a 

 practice can ever be supported upon the 

 basis of inadvertency ; when it would be ren- 

 dering nature accessary to a perversion of her 

 ow^n laws, even to suppose it w^a^ ever intend- 

 ed, that any animal existing should longer 

 sub>ist or preij upon the very vitals of its dam, 

 when the frame was again advancing in preg- 

 nancy with another. 



From this necessary allusion to a practice 

 that is not only exceedingly common and 

 too little attended to, but is also prejudi- 

 cial to the subjects themselves in a greater 



