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The rapid accumulation and combination 

 of remedies naturally excited feme expoftula- 

 tion, and influenced me to afk whether there 

 were any predominant reafons (exclufive of 

 the interefled recommendation of the ope- 

 rator) that induced him fo foon to permit 

 the infertion of the rowel, before he had 

 waited even twenty-four hours^ to obferve 

 whether any advantage had been derived 

 from the bleeding, which was certainly the 

 firft and bell ftep that could have beea 

 taken ? Finding alfo, upon minute inquiry, 

 that there w^as a great probability of its hav- 

 ing been occalioned by a bite or blow among 

 other horfes, when replaced in the liable, 

 between the time of his having been agreed 

 for and brought away ; I prevailed on him to 

 poftpone the rowel, (which he had butjuft 

 time to do, as the ipcifion was made before 

 his return) relinquifh his nitrous, fulphureous 

 intention for the prefent, and leave his horfe 

 in my flable ; which havmg cheerfully com- 

 plied with, the eye was perfectly found and 

 clear in a few days, with no other afliftance 

 than a flight wafliing twice a day with a 

 fponge, plentifully impregnated with cold 

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