?34 EXERCISE, 



Anxious to obtain.every possible informa- 

 tion upon so extraordinary and unpromising 

 a case, I commenced my inquiry with cau- 

 tion, and continued it with precision, to the 

 attainment of every particular step that had 

 been taken for his relief; and doubt not but 

 * every reader will be as much surprized in the 

 perusal, as I must have been in the recital, 

 when he is informed, that the horse had 

 been in this gradually increasing state for two 

 months ; with the additional mortification to 

 the parties, that every method adopted for his 

 improvement had evidently contributed to 

 his disadvantage. 



Every degree of admiration, however natu- 

 rally excited by the force of this reflection, 

 will as naturally subside when the communi- 

 " cation of the messenger and the state of the 

 horse have undergone a little deliberative re- 

 trospection. In the first instance, his keep 

 was so reduced as barely to subsist nature; 

 he had undergone jive bleedings (without the 

 least reference to either quantify or qualify)^ 

 three doses of strong mercurial physic, two 

 ounces of nitre a day from the origin of the 

 complaint ; ancj lastly, to render complete iL 



