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Reader with tedious or unnecejGTary quota- 

 tions, I fhall let it fuffice to introduce fuch 

 abbreviations only as become perfecflly ap- 

 plicable to our future remarks upon the fub- 

 jed before us. 



Bracken juftJy obferves, ** Ro welling is 

 the common refource of Farriers in general ; 

 amongft whom, he could never find one that 

 could give a fatisfadtory account of the uje or 

 al^ufe ; but they all tell you, a rowel is to 

 draw off the bad or corrupt humours from 

 the blood ; and this is to cure almoft every 

 diforder, according to their way of reafon- 

 ing.*' This affertion is fo ftridly true, that 

 I will cheerfully confent to its confirmation, 

 upon the experimental inquiries of the laft 

 twenty years; and declare, 1 never could 

 acquire from the Fulcanian profejfors, a more 

 technical or enlightened defcription of the 

 OPERATIVE EFFECTS, than the '-'- poor efi* 

 tome*^ he acknowledges to have received. 



In this communication there is nothing 

 very extraordinary; but it is not fo in what 

 is to follow, and is Vv'orthy obfervation. In the 

 fame page, and almoft the next line, he tells 



us, 



