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Purging ; upon the very falutary and judi- 

 cious interpofition of which, I have already 

 given my decided opinion as to its gene- 

 ral utihty, though I do not mean to affert 

 myfelf an advocate for its ifidifcriminate ad- 

 miniftration, without due deference to the 

 caufe and conditt07i of the fubjecl. I wifh 

 by no means to be confidered an invariable 

 friend to unneceflary evacuations; perfedly 

 convinced they are only abfolutely requifite, 

 under the w^eight of injudicious accumula- 

 tion. I therefore beg no mifconftruClion may 

 be put upon the thefis I advance, which is, 

 that EVACUATIONS become not only proper 

 but indifpenfcibk, when a horfe is so much 

 ABOVE HIMSELF in Condition, that he 

 evidently difplays the advancing progrefs 

 and ill effects of repletion (arifing from full 

 feed and irregular exercife) in the variety 

 of ways fo repeatedly defcribed ; not only 

 under other heads in this, but different parts 

 of the former volume, where the ftate of 

 the blood necefiarily became the fubjed: of 

 difquifition. 



From what has been fo fully advanced 



upon 



