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as a burlefque upon fo great and learned a 

 body, but to prove that fach, as well as 

 individuals, are liable to error and mifcon- 

 itrudion. 



My predecelTor (as I have before remarked) 

 then fays, " with fome farther experiments 

 " and improvements he hopes this diftemper 

 *' will be brought to a certainty of cure." 

 Now what he can wifh or defue by " farther 

 " experiments and improvements," is beyond 

 my abilities to difcover; he defcends moft mi- 

 Butely to the operation of trepanning; or, in 

 plainer terms, taking two pieces of bone out 

 of different parts of the fcuU by perforation, 

 then plentifully ^^y^/:^^ with detergent lotiom^ 

 adding a variety of inftrudlions for inje^ionSy 

 drejftngs. Sec. to complete a cure of what, till 

 theriy had been confidered incurable. To keep 

 up the farce of inconfiftency, we are at laft 

 confidently affured that fuch operations being 

 performed, '' after opening the cavities, fnould 

 '' it by probing be difcovered that the bones 

 *' are carious, (or, in other words, rotten) the 

 *' beft way then will be to difpatch the horfe, 

 '« to fave unnecePiary trouble and expenfe." 

 I cannot refill the temptation 1 feel to tranf- 



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