294 G L A N D E R S. 



It would be rather inattentive and remifs in 

 me to pais over the uncharitablenefs, or rather 

 cruelty, of dooming to death the three horfes 

 fo trepanned^ fyringed^ and completely cured by 

 M. La Fosse ** in twenty-fix days^'' unlefs we 

 are to conceive the/>(?^/J/7/Vy of putting '* them 

 '* to death'* on the twenty-fixth day, to avoid 

 their natural dilTolution on the twenty-feventh, 

 the better to enfure the honour of the boafted 

 difcovery, and the additional *^ approbation 

 " of the Royal Academy of Sciences." 



^ This pcjjibility may be very probable^ and in- 

 deed is no injuftifiable or unfafhionable policy 

 in phyfician, farrier, or quack, as every newf- 

 paper amply teftifies; they daily abound with 

 lingular, miraculous, incredible^ (imaginary) 

 cures, conftantly effeded by mercurial or an- 

 timonial noftrums, but not a fingle word of 

 the HUNDREDS that annually fall vidims 

 to the neceffities of medical adventurers, who, 

 w\C[i fortune fufficient to pay for an advertife^ 

 77ienty half a icoxQ phials^ 2i Joint ion of mercury^ 

 or a quart oifoap lees, boldly commence their 

 depredations upon the public j and this they 

 are now the more entitled to do by their ex- 

 tenfive contribution to the exigencies of go- 

 vernment, 



