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rung the changes, to no fort of improvement, 

 either in refpect of delicacy, elegance, or effect. 

 One variation he has introduced, which is 

 laughable enough; he has ordered a folitary 

 drachm of cremor tar. in purge, No. l. which 

 quantity to be fure muft have a powerful effeft 

 in the body of a hoi fe. That innocent flourifh 

 merited nothing farther than a fmile; but it is 

 very reprehenfible in him, who is the perpetual 

 advocate of gentle remedies, and who effecls to 

 defpife the idea of expcncc in drugs; in open 

 defiance of the many cautions of his preceptors, 

 to encourage not only the ufe of Barbadoes 

 aloes, but even of diagridium in horfe-phyfic. 

 All our bed writers notice the mifchiefs occa- 

 fionally done by the ufe of plantation aloes in 

 ignorant hands, and myfelf have feen feveral 

 Horfes fall a facrifice to it. I once incautioufly, 

 and contrary to my ufual cuftom, entruffed an 

 ignorant fmith or farrier to purge a hackney 

 mare; and as thole doctors always make ufe of 

 cheap or common aloes, the bufmefs was per- 

 formed fo. effectually, that the mare purged in 

 torrents, three or four days; at the end of 

 which period, I found her an excellent living 

 anatomical fubject. To my complaints, the 

 doclor anfwered, by poking in the dung, and 

 exultingly fhewing me the immenfe load of 

 greafe and humours, from the danger of which, 

 he had relieved my fortunate hackney. I 

 found filcnce became me, feeing the fault was 



my 



