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the idea, they obliquely coincide ia opinion 

 by acknowledging it is much the fafeft way to 

 '' feparate the found from the unfound, and 

 ** not run any hazard with a good horfe when 

 ^' it may kc fo eafily avoided/' Whether we 

 confider this as a neceffary caution, or a proof 

 of conviction, the maxim is equally refpeda- 

 ble, and fhouid be ccnftantly retained in the 

 memory. Where there is the ieaft reafon to 

 fufpedt even a probability of danger from the 

 very chance of contagion 5 and more particu- 

 larly fince the .prevalence of opinion has re- 

 duced the belief of infedion to almoft a cer- 

 tainty, no perfon can hardly be found fuffi- 

 cknilyfool'baray to place a found horfe in a 

 ftabLe where one ftands, or is faid to have 

 htdy flood, with this diftcmper upon him. 



It again becomes unavoidably neceffary to 

 make a few additional remarks upon the 

 boafted operation and difcovery of M. La 

 Fosse, from which fuch great and extenfive 

 advantages would h2.vt probabiy been obtained, 

 had the ungenerous ad been prevented of 

 taking away the lives of his three patients, after 

 they had withftcod the glanders, a double per- 

 foration 



