234 EXERCISE. 



Anxious to obtain every poffible informa- 

 tion upon fo extraordinary and unpromifing 

 a cafe, I commenced my inquiry with cau- 

 tion, and continued it with piecifion, to the 

 attainment of every particular Hep that had 

 been taken for his relief ; and doubt not but 

 every reader will be as much furprifed in the 

 perufal, as I muft have been in the recital, 

 when he is informed, that the horfe had 

 been in this gradually increafing ftate for two 

 months ; with the additional mortification to 

 the parties, that every method adopted for his 

 improvement had evidently contributed to his 

 difadvantage. 



Every degree of admiration, however natu- 

 rally excited by the force of this refledion, 

 will as naturally fubfide when the communi- 

 cation of the meffenger and the ftate of the 

 horfe have undergone a little deliberative re- 

 trofpedlion. In the firft inftance, his keep 

 was fo reduced as barely to fubfift nature; 

 he had undergone jive bleedings, (without the 

 leaft reference to either quantity or quality) 

 three dofes of llrong mercurial phyfic, two 

 ounces of nitre a day from the origin of the 

 complaint; and /^/k, to render complete a 



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