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the same uniform and invariable opinion ; 

 that the public are eternally pestered with in- 

 numerable advertisements, announcing the 

 miraculous aires (Nature has performed)^ 

 but not a single word of the many thousands 

 such medicines have destroyed ; so true it is, 

 '' dead men tell no tales." 



Having gone through what I conceive a 

 duty incumbent, respecting the operation of 

 physic and its effects upon the frame, to 

 elucidate, as much as circumstances would 

 admit, a subject that has been hitherto con- 

 sidered as sufficient matter to justify and sup- 

 port a contrariety of opinions, I must, after 

 giving it such professional explanation as my 

 slender abilities were adequate to, submit the 

 propriety of the practice, under conditional 

 regulations, to the decision of those who may 

 do me the honour of minutely investigating, 

 what has been necessarily advanced for ge- 

 neral cojnsideration ; begging permission to 

 observe, that particular instructions for the 

 management of horses under the operation 

 of PHYSIC, may be found in the former 

 volume under that head ; the present pages 

 having been dedicated entirely to the ope^ 



