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PuRGiKG ; upon the very salutary and judi- 

 cious interposition of which I have already 

 given my decided opinion as to its gene- 

 ral utility, though I do not mean to assert 

 myself an advocate for its indiscriminate ad- 

 ministration, without due deference to the 

 cause and condition of the subject. I wisU; 

 by no means to be considered an invariable 

 friend to unnecessary evacuations ; perfectly 

 convinced they are orrly absolutely requisite 

 under the weight of injudicious accumu- 

 lation. I therefore becj no misconstruction 

 may be put upon the thesis I adv^ance, wdiich 

 is, that evacuations become not ov\y proper 

 but indispensable, when a horse is so much 

 above himself in condition, that he evi- 

 dently displays the advancing progress and 

 ill effects of repletion (arising from full feed 

 and irregular exercise) in the variety of 

 ways so repeatedly described ; not only 

 under other heads in this, but different parts 

 of the former volume, where the state of 

 the blood necessarily became the subject of 

 disquisition. 



From what has been so fully advanced 



