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that faculty throughout Europe* Into fuch 

 hands do we commit diftempered animals which 

 have it not in their power to reproach us with 

 their accumulated fufferings ; mankind from 

 prejudice, indolence, and want of feeling, neg- 

 leding thofe creatures which they can purchafe 

 with their money. 



Dr. Hacket, in his late travels through Dacia 

 and Sarmaiia, relates the following wonderful 

 feat of a farrier at Roman, in Moldavia. " It 

 *' was a hot day, and we having travelled far, 

 " one of our beft horfes fell, and we gave him 

 " up for loft. The farrier, who in Moldavia is 

 '•' always a gipfey, comforted us by undertaking 

 " to fet the horfe upon his legs, and recover him 

 perfeftl); in a quarter of an hour, which en- 

 gagement he really performed. He did no- 

 thing but fcoop out from each upper eye-lid 

 " of the beaft, a gland the fize of a hazle nut, 

 " without bleeding him, or ufing any other 

 " means whatever, which might occasion a 

 " doubt as to the efficacy of his operation." 

 Who can be fo fceptical as to doubt of the clofe 

 affinity between caufe and effeft in this cure ? 



But the pride of medical gentlemen will not 

 fuffer them to incur the fancied degradation of 

 becoming horfe and cow-do8:ors ; thence the 

 major part of the public is neceffitated to com- 

 mit the care of their beafts to unlearned and 

 empyrical hands ; neverthelefs were there a cor. 



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