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tnent fo ridiculoufly adapted to the cafes ill 

 queilion. 



Not entertaining the leaft doubt but upon 

 thefe reprefentations, by much the greater 

 part of the judicious and enlightened world 

 will perfeftly coincide with me in an opinion 

 not to be eradicated ; that numbers of horfes 

 annually lofe not only their eyes but their 

 lives, by the dreadful effeSs of unbounded 

 ignorance and confidence; that it is to be 

 lamented, too frequently adl in conjundion, 

 to the palpable prejudice of undifcerning cre- 

 dulity. Confidering this a fail too fubftantial 

 to be ftiaken by fpeculative or inexperienced 

 opinions, it becomes for the completion of 

 our purpofe, abfolutely neceilary we advert to 

 the mifchiefs fo frequently occalioned by the 

 fafliionable and indifcriminate ufe oi nitre, in 

 confequence of the general encomiums of 

 former writers, before its properties were fo 

 critically afcertained ; which added to the pe- 

 cuniary eafe of acquifition, has brought the 

 article into too great a degree of conftant ufe, 

 in almoft every cafe, without a relative con- 

 fideratjon to its medical property, the caufe 



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