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Having introduced what became abfolutely 

 unavoidable, to demonftrate the frequent ab- 

 furdity (from long ftanding, and invincible 

 cuftom) of applying rowels in many cafes, 

 w^ithout the leaft well-founded reafon for 

 their ufe ; it becomes neceffary to difcover, 

 by fcientific inquiry, what can be advanced 

 in proof of the fuppofed utility, that has for 

 ages rendered them the profeffional (or poli- 

 tical) rage of every clafs of equestrian 

 DOCTORS without diftindlion. Bracken, 

 as I have before obferved, fays, he attributed 

 much of the virtue of rowelling to the good 

 effeds of rejl and patience ; and I am not a 

 little vain that we fall into a diredl coinci- 

 dence of opinion upon fo principal a part of 

 the fubjcd. 



Previous to the intended inveftigation of 

 their operative procefs and effedls, 1 cannot 

 but exprefs my difappointment in not finding 

 fomething more fatisfadory from the very 

 intelligent and much enlightened pen of Mn 

 Clarke, to whofe profeffional merits I flrall 

 ever be one of the firft to fubfcribe ; though 

 unluckily upon this head, he has not defcant^ 



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