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Is left by which the leaft rational and authentic 

 information is to be acquired, except *^ plen- 

 ^' tifal bleedings, the unlimited ufc of fait- 

 *' petre, and the infertion of rowels," even to 

 the number of ^ivi or eight upoij the fame 

 fubjedt. 



Ev^ry intelligent obferver mufl: be well con^ 

 vinced of the abfurdity of fuch accumulation 

 as Gibson defcribes, and the improbability 

 (not to fay, what might be very well juftified, 

 the impojfilnllty) of difcovering, by no other 

 means xh2LnJilent fymptoms and ocular infpec- 

 tion (amounting to no kind of demonftration) 

 the origin, caufe, or indeed diftemper itfelf, 

 to which there is no certain diftindion, or 

 palpable proof of exiflence. And when it is 

 remembered there is no agency in the ani- 

 mal by which the particulars of his pain or 

 rfiftrefs can be communicated, every judicious 

 §nd candid reader will admit the impradlicabi- 

 lity of difcriminating between the variety of 

 fymptoms, by which alone all this FAMILY 

 OF FEVERS are to be afcertained. It may 

 alfo be taken into confideration, that animals 

 pf this clafs, from their fimple diet and regu- 

 lar 



