EXERCISE. fW 



has for ages remained in an acknowledged 

 state of barbarity and ignorance. 



Mr. Clarke, in his '' Obser^'^tions on 

 Blood-letting/' says, '' It is difficult to fix 

 any precise standard how we may judge 

 either of the healthy or morbid state of the 

 blood in horses when cold/* This is an opi- 

 nion so directly opposite to what I have fre-? 

 quently advanced upon former occasions, 

 (with reasons at large for inspecting it in 

 such state), that my silence upon the passage 

 alluded to w^ould bear so much the appear- 

 ance of pusillanimity, or professional igno* 

 ranee, that I gladly avail myself of tiie pre- 

 sent opportunity to subjoin a few words in 

 support of the opinion formerly maintained; 

 but with the most unsullied respect for a 

 writer of so much perspicuity and eminence, 

 whose abilities I hold in the greatest esti- 

 iTiation. 



It may, as Mr. Clarke seems to think, 

 '' be difficult to fix any precise standard to 

 (discover the exact state of the blood when 

 cold;*' but I doubt not his candour, upon 

 due deliberation^ will admit the CEitXAiNTy 



