4 OBSERVATIONS. ' 



praflice wonder leaft how the dog-kenneL§ 

 in every part of the kingdom are fo amply fur-- 

 niilied with horse flesh. 



As an elucidation of this circumftance, and 

 to corroborate the confiflency of thefe obfer- 

 vations, we need only advert to the treatment 

 of the human fpecies in the time of that lumi- 

 nary, the famous Sydenham, who was fo much 

 the celebrated favourite of his day, it was al- 

 moft fuppofed he could do no wrong. It being 

 then a common practice of his—to order boldly 

 THIRTY ounces of blood to be taken from 

 the arm of a man, without fear of murder^ or 

 danger oipimi/Jdment, And this is not altogether 

 likely to create wonder, when we recolle(5l 

 tliere is no la%v exiiling to hang a phyfician for 

 error in judgment. 7ime and experience has 

 fixed the fiandard, according to cafes, circum- 

 ftances, and exigencies, from six ounces to 

 SIXTEEN, which is nearly one half the original 

 evacuation j fo that we find by this change of 

 quantity the modern human body is fuppofed to 

 contain no more than one half the proportion 

 of blood that ran in the veins of the heroes of 

 A T\ T I QU 1 T V, unlefs the whole fyftem is entirely 

 changed, as obferved by Gregory, in the Mock 



- Doctor, 



