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air veflels — or in the blood veflels — or in tu- 

 bercles — or in ulcers — or in too full feeding, 

 Sec.; — Bartlet quotes from Gibfon, who refers 

 you to Markham, or Soleyfell ; and Bracken 

 to Burdon, and fo on ad infinitum* We are 

 Kkewife told the three laft diftempers are ge- 

 nerally incurable : You are then inftructed to 

 proceed with mercurial phyfic, giving, in the 

 intermediate days, the cinnabar balls ; if they 

 fail, try alterative purges ; to thefe follow cor- 

 dial balls, with balfams of Peru and fulphur, 

 {quills, tar, &c. one to be continued a week or 

 ten days ; another a fortnight ; and a third for 

 two months, or longer,' &c. &c. — " I (hall 

 avoid this beaten track of duplicity, and not 

 amufe my readers in every page, with Gibfon 

 directs this, or Bartlet the other ; but commu- 

 nicate fome inftruclions from the dictates of 

 nature and reason, zcho have been hitherto 

 mod infamoufly treated, and mod (hamefully 

 abandoned, through every fyftem of equef- 

 trian medical practice." After this oftentatious 

 prelude, thefe profefiorial ftriclures, and pomp- 

 ous pretenfions, does not the reader expect, 

 fomcthing new from the pen of Mr. Taplin, 

 either as to the caufe of the difeafe, the fymp- 

 toms, method of treatment, or intentions of 

 cure ? Does not he look for fome choice and 

 valuable fpecific, recommended on the ftrength 

 of the profeflbr's twenty years experience? At 



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