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knew of the fcalding remedy, was in the year 

 1788. It was applied to a fiftula in the withers 

 of a grofs, foul-bodied cart gelding, in which 

 the difcharge of thick, fetid, oily matter was 

 fo abundant, as to drown all mild applications. 

 It was brought to difcharge good matter by 

 once fcalding, on which a perfect, cure enfued. 

 Mr. Taplin's method of cure, which will 

 doubtlefs fucceed in flight cafes, is after all ex- 

 tracted, almoft verbatim, from the decried Gib- 

 fon and Bartlet. Page 187, Mr. Taplin fays, 

 '■' A Practical Treatife may be compiled from 

 Gibfon, Burdon, Bracken and others, without 

 coining a new thought." Ke has pro- 

 ceeded a ftep farther than aflerting it, he has 

 proved it. 



Stable Directory, vol. i,ftage 202, Colds, &c. 



te In refpecl to thefe diforders, their defcrip- 

 tions (or rather the different conjectures) have 

 been fo extended, turned, twirled, and muti- 

 lated, in their tranfmiflions from one author 

 to another, that it is natural to fuppofe no true 

 ftate of either could be afcertained, or any 

 thing fatisfact.ory advanced upon the fubjecl. 

 We have the authority of a century pad to 

 prove they are caufed (meaning colds, broken 

 wind, confumptions, &c.) by ' the impetuofity 

 of the blood rufhing into the lungs — or in the 



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