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infure its credibility. Nitre is the general 

 arcanum for every ill, while one-half of 

 thofe who prefcribe, and the other half who 

 give it, may be equally ftrangers to its ef-^ 

 fecfls or mode of operation. If a horfe is 

 attacked with cold from an obflrudlion of 

 the pores, that has thrown the perfpirable 

 matter upon the eyes, lungs, or glandular 

 parts, what is the eftablifhed remedy ? Nitfe ! 

 Inflammatory fever enfues, what follows J 

 Ni^re ! Swelled legs, craclced heels, or 

 greafe ? Nitre ! Bad eyes (from whatever 

 -caufe) ? Nitre ! In fad:, fuch is thi predomi- 

 nant rage of fafhionable frenzy, that ihould 

 any cafe arife, bearing in experience no pa- 

 thognomonic fymptoms to afcertain the cer* 

 tainty or probable affinity of difeafe, its 

 origin or termination, Nitre, wkhfagaciou: 

 grooms and co?idefcending farriers^ muft be- 

 come the grand fpecific ; to which infatua- 

 tion, I am much inclined to believe Bart- 

 let's unbounded partiality, and its echo from 

 one conjurer to another^ has very much con- 

 tributed. 



A chain of attentive obfervations, collefled 

 in the courfe of long experience, has fully 



R 2 juftified 



