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cular knofs^ or tubercles^ the evident effects 

 of plenitude ; worms, or flucSuating pains in 

 the limbs, occafioning alternate lamenefs in 

 one part or another. In all which cafes, it 

 is to be obferved, horfes lliould never have 

 their exercife or labour increafed, to the leaft 

 degree of violent exertion, without iirft un- 

 dergoing EVACUATIONS of fuch kind, as 

 become immediately applicable to the cafe ir:i 

 ^ueftion. 



For my own part, I feel myfelf power- 

 fully influenced to recommend the early ad- 

 mi niflrat ion of mercurial purges^ accurately 

 proportioned to the ftate of the fubjed: and 

 prevalence or duration of difeafe ; and this 

 upon the- experimental bafis of minute at- 

 tention to their lingular effedls upon the con- 

 ftitutions of horfes, in a variety of inftances 

 that periedly juftify me in communicating 

 ESTABLISHED PROOFS of their fupcrior ex- 

 cellence, not only in the different cafes juft 

 recited, but in many others, that it would 

 be foreign to our prefent purpofe to enume- 

 rate. 



To prevent a perpetual obtrulion of tech- 

 nical 



