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is too generally concluded of the leaft value, and 

 treated accordingly. Inftead of mitigating the 

 fymptoms, they are conftantly increafed by the 

 very means that (hould be avoided ; thefouleft 

 and moft injurious food is liberally fupplied — 

 grofe clover hay — mixed chafF, and as much 

 water as the animal chufes to carry, are too 

 often permitted, even v^ithout reftraint, and 

 the defedl abiclutely encouraged to become 

 habitual, inftead of being aleviated> by the 

 very means that reafon didatcs and diferetion 

 direds. 



CONSUMPTION 



Is a difeafe or complication upon which 

 Very little need be introduced, but to keep up 

 the appearance of form, and pay the neceflary 

 and expeded compliment to cuftom. No ap- 

 pellation, no defcription of difeafe, has been 

 more hackniedy more proflituted and perverted^ 

 than the very name of consumption; it has 

 for ages been an excellent majk of 7ny fiery for 

 the doubts of the faculty, and no bad ex-* 

 planatory fubftitute for the meaning of the vuU 

 0^2 gar. 



