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foratlon in (or drilling of) the fcidU reJDCated 

 wajljings of the brai?2S with detergent injec- 

 tions, and a fubfequent regetieratioji of parts. 

 That the Operations tJiay have betn performed 

 as defcribed, and the horfe (or three horfcs) 

 may have lived twenty-fix days, I do not at- 

 tempt to deny, nor is it in 7Jly power to dif- 

 prove; but this I will boldly venture to affirm, 

 that the certain expenje and hazard can be but 

 a veryflender lottery chance for any proprietor 

 who may unluckily have a horfe labour- 

 ing under the extremity cf this dreadful 

 difeafe* 



I cannot believe, nor indeed do I expedlj 

 difintereftednefs can ever become fo truly 

 triumphant, as to permit any farrier to be fo 

 great an enemy to his own intereft as to re- 

 commend DEATH, or difcourage the expec- 

 tation of CURE, fo long as circumilances and 

 the perfuafive power of his rhetoric can juftify 

 the idea of hope \ but how far it may be 

 worth while to encounter the difficulties of 

 anxiety, tedious expenfe, long ficknefs, attend- 

 ance, perpetual nurfing, and the danger of 

 infefting whatever horfes remain in. or may 



come 



