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cular k7iof&, or tubercles, the evident effects of 

 plenitude ; xcorms, or fluctuating pains in 

 the limbs, occasioning alternate laynenesS' in 

 one part or another. In all which cases, it 

 is to be observed, horses should never have 

 their exercise or labour increased, to the l^ast 

 degree of violent exertion, without first un- 

 dergoing EVACUATIONS of such kind, as be-? 

 come imm.ediately applicable to the case in 

 question. 



For my own part, I feel myself power- 

 fully influenced to recommend the early ad- 

 ministration of mercurial purges, accurately 

 proportioned to the state of the subject and 

 prevalence or duration of disease ! and this 

 vipon the experimental basis of minute at- 

 tention to their singular effects upon the con- 

 stitutions of horses, in a variety of instances 

 that perfectly justify me in communicating 

 ESTABLISHED PROOFS of their supcrior ex- 

 cellence, not only in the different cases just 

 recited, but in many others, that it would 

 be foreign to our present purpose to enu-« 

 merate. 



T^o prevent a perpetual ohtrusioji of tech- 



