OBSERVATIONS. 5 



Doctor, who fays " The heart was for- 

 " merly on the left fide, but the COLLEGE 

 " have altered all that, and placed it on the 

 " riglotr 



To produce a cafe exadly fimilar in the 

 World of Farriery, let us take a furvey 

 of the medical abilities of Gibson, who cer- 

 tainly wrote much better on the fubjedl than 

 Bracken ^ where we fhall find ordered, in a 

 fingle prefcription for a purging ball, two ounces 

 of aloes ^ with the addition of the other ufual 

 purging articles, though modern pradice and 

 experience fixes the eftablifhed proportion at 

 exactly half, or at moft Jive eighths, to the 

 ftrongeft hcrfes, with the cathartic aids before 

 mentioned. He alfo moft courageoufly re- 

 commends /6^/^^;2 ounce of calomel, ov jublimed 

 7nercury, in a fingle ball ; and fpeaks of the 

 internal adminiftration of moft powerful poi- 

 fons, corrpjive fuhlimate, o-c red precipitate, as a 

 matter of courfe: the proportion for a dofe 

 being curioufly afcertained by the fublime 

 menfuration of a ** filver two-pence," as if a 

 premium had been abfolutely provided by an 

 aB of parliament for the general extirpation of 

 the breed of HORSES, as deJiruBive to the 

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