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memorial by the apppellation of humour si to 

 be ultimately carried oflF with the remaining 

 efforts of inteifinal expulfion. 



If any farther explanation can be at all 

 required, to render this procefs more intel- 

 ligible to the dulleft comprehenfions, I m.iift: 

 beg permiffion to recommend fuch Reader to 

 a retrofpediive recolled;ion of his own fenfa- 

 tions towards the concluding operations of an 

 emetic, or cathartic ; when I believe it will 

 immediately occur to his remembrance, that 

 the irritation of the velTels was much more 

 levere and effed:ual, (proved by the repeated 

 ftrainings) than in the preceding difcharges 

 when the contents were expelled with much 

 greater eafe to the patient, though lefs effi- 

 cacy upon the frame. 



As I have juft hinted, there are other 

 diforders, or rather advanced Jiages^ of thofe 

 laft defcribed, (and for which ** brifk purges'* 

 are recomimended,) that require a ftill more 

 peculiar mode of counter-adion ; as horfes 

 fubjed to, or labouring under, inveterate 

 cracks in the heels j oozing indications of, 

 or palpable greafe j cutaneous eruptmis ; vaf- 



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