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but for the worfe^ the wound is dreffed, 

 dreffed^andDREbSED AGAIN! Mlmjlgn 

 of relief, no favouring power prcfides, nor any 

 prevailing genius appears, but the predomi- 

 nant GENIUS of DULNESS, who, anxious 

 to increafe the " mifchief fhe has made/* 

 prompts him to finifh with fortitude what he 

 had commenced in ftupidity ! Toconfefs the 

 lead degree of inability would be a degrada- 

 tion of dignity, therefore, on he goes (Ranger 

 like) '' NECK OR NOTHING !'' ftrong digeflives 

 (and ihok fcalding too) follow, but follow in 

 Vain. No improvement, no enlivening ray, 

 longer to keep up the face of profeffional in- 

 ability : no lucky alternative but mercury^ vi^ 

 trioly and all the family oijire renewed, till the 

 ferious ceremony terminates in an inveterate 

 ulcer, or confirmed fiftula, as will be feparately 

 treated on under thofe heads. 



There are certain wounds that occur much 

 more frequently than any others and though 

 in themfelves not at all dangerous, yet fome- 

 th'ing may be expeded upon a treatment proper 

 to be adopted in cafes that fo conftantly happen. 

 Amon gthcfe are broken knees^ over ^reaches y and 

 ificerations between hair and hoof* In refpedt 



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