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the dawn of the difeafe; but I will by no 

 means admit ih^ probability where the original 

 caufe has been of long (landing, and no at- 

 tempts made to reHeve. A little deliberation 

 will convince every reader that a cure can ori- 

 ginate only in fuch adminiftrations or clafs of 

 medicines as are evidently calculated in their 

 operations or efFedls to reach, cleanfe, and re- 

 move, obftrudtions in the very remote feat of 

 difeafe. 



Bleeding naturally arifes out of this ob- 

 fcrvation, and muft be repeated at proper inter- 

 vals, in moderate quantities, till divefted of the 

 coat of fize and livid appearance, that are cer- 

 tain prognoftics when the lungs are obftrudted 

 either by vifcidity or inflam?nation. To pro- 

 mote the neceifary evacuations in the firft 

 inftance, to attenuate the vifcidity of the glu- 

 tinous obftruded matter, and to deterge the 

 paflages by a ftimulation of the folids, are the 

 only foundations upon which the hope or pro- 

 bability of a cure may be formed ; therefore 

 after bleeding go through a regular courfe of 

 the mild purging balls (prefcribed after the 

 horfe's recovery from the article laft treated 

 on 3) they are flightly impregnated with mer» 



curial 



