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us, '' it is good in a great many difeafes /* 

 and inftantly fays: *' The horfe might as 

 well, nay better, lofe as much blood every 

 day as he does matter by the rowel \ for it is 

 as certainly blood as that in the veins, barring 

 the colour, which makes no effential differ- 

 ence ; and he is very much of opinion that 

 feverai cures are wholly attributed to roweU 

 ling, when reft and patience are the princi- 

 palinftruments or agents that perform it." 



Is there any one reader who. will not be 

 greatly furprifed, and as highly entertained, 

 when he is informed that the writer, who 

 has recommended the ufe of rowels for the 

 cure of various difeafes, in compliance with 

 the force of that very cuftom he condemns, 

 fhould in the fame page, and comparatively 

 with the fame breath, inftantly reprobate the 

 practice, as abfolutely drawing fo much blood 

 from the veins ; poftefiing at the fame time 

 fo great a verfatility of literary genius, fo per- 

 fed: a pantomimic tranfpofition of words and 

 opinions, that we find hira (p. S5.) prefcrib- 

 ing '* bleeding, purging, and rowelling ifi 

 Jtvcral places at once^ for one rowel is of 

 little avail for many reafons ; and thefe ftiould 



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