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us, ** it is good iu a great many diseases :** 

 and instantly says ; ** The horse might as 

 well, nay better, lose as much blood every 

 day as he does matter by the roxoel ; for it is 

 as certainly blood as that in the vein^r^^'^i^g 

 the colour, which makes no essential differ- 

 ence ; and he is very much of opinion, 

 several cures are wholly attributed to 

 roxcellmg, when rest and patience are the 

 principal instruments or agents that per- 

 form it. 



Is there any one reader wlio will not be 

 greatly surprized, and as highly entertained, 

 when he is informed, that the writer, who 

 has recommended the use of rowels for the 

 cure of various diseases, in compliance with 

 the force of that very custom he condemns, 

 should in the same page, and comparatively 

 with the same breath, instantly reprobate the 

 practice, as absolutely drawing so much blood 

 from the veins ; possessing at the same time 

 so great aversatility of literary genius, so per- 

 fect a pantomimic transposition of words and 

 opinions, that we find him (p. 85.) prescrib- 

 ing *' bleeding, purging, and rovvelling in se- 

 veral places at once, for one rowel is of little 

 avail for many reasons : and these e^iould , 



