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pay an implicit obedience to every ahfurdity^folh^ 

 oj: faljehoody fandioned with the authority 

 of the frefs*, and conceive a certain degree of 

 infallibility appertains to whatever makes its 

 appearance in print. That thefe are the fenti- 

 ments of the lower clafs, is too well known to 

 require corroboration; and I am induced to 

 introduce a few REMARKS upon this fubjedt 

 by the inconfiilent and unmerciful (not to add 

 infernal) advice held forth to pracftice, in a 

 publication that would alone entitle it to the 

 FLAMES and perpetual oblivion. 



We are there told ^^ the poll evil Is an abfcefs 

 *^ near the poll of a horfe, formed in the finews 

 ** between the noil bone and the uppermoft 

 ** vertebriE of the neck." You are then in- 

 firuded to fcald with a compound of *' oil of* 

 *^ turpentine, corrotive mercury, verdigreafe, 

 ** Roman vitriol, green copperas, and ttain 

 '' oil -:' thefe are to be poured " SCALDING 

 *' HOT into the wound, and ftitchcd up for 

 *' feveral days 3 and if matter flows in great 

 *' abundance, and of a thin confidence, it muft 

 ** be fcalded <^^^/;2 j" &c. &c. This igno- 

 KANT unfeeling 2iiitm^\. to arrefl the judgment, 

 and impose upon the underftanding, is almofl 



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