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man Fabrick. Yet more Stir and Noife is made 

 about the Danger and Cure of the Venereal Dif- 

 cafe, than needs be by far ; for, in Reality, there is 

 no more in curing it ( if not of too long Handing ) 

 than in drawing I'eeth, or cutting out Corns, and 

 this with the greatefl Safety imaginable, even with- 

 out taking a Grain of any Medicine by the Mouth. 

 Yet I am told, that this Difeafe is fo terrible and 

 frightful to the London Apprentices, ^c. that a 

 great many of our Profeffion live very comfortably 

 from their Gains upon this one Article. 



Yet I muft confefs thefe Gentlemen are at more 

 Pains and Trouble to find out new and frightful 

 Symptoms in this Diilemper, than one need be in 

 curing it. However, if their frightful declamatory 

 Way of Writing has any good EfFed upon Youth 

 fo as to make them lead better and mere virtuous 

 Lives, it would be Pity for any one to inveigh 

 againft them. Therefore, at prefent I muft defift 

 from the Subjeft, and proceed to a Defcription of 

 the Dropfy in Horfes. 



CHAP. XXXI. 



Of the Drcpfy in Horfes. 



MR. Gihfon fays,, that all our Enrlifj Authors, 

 and fome Italians, have enumerated a 

 Dropfy among the Difeafes of Horfes ; but I find Mr. 

 Gihfon has not thought Sir William Hope's Book, a 

 third Edition of v/hich \\2S printed in 1717, worth 

 his Perufal : For this Author never mentions the 

 Dropfy as a Difeafe incident to Horfes, altho' he 

 hits a good Number of the Diilempers which afflia 

 this ufeful Animal. But then Sir William prefcnbes 

 fuch out-of-the-way Mixtures and Applications, 

 that to read them is enough to make one fick. So 

 that in the main I have not read any Author upon 

 the Subjea of Horfes (befides Mr. Gihjon) which is 



worth 



