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words, left I fliould be tempted by my enthu- 

 fiafm, to write a Currus triumphalis of Glau- 

 ber's Salts ; or left my reader (hould begin to 

 fufpeft, that in imitation of the cow-do6lor 

 mentioned in the former chapter, I fhould at laft, 

 recommend falts even as a bracer. The difcern- 

 ing Reader will fraile here, at his fuppofed difco- 

 very of ray fliare of the common weaknefs. All 

 doQors, it is well known, have their hobby-horfi- 

 cal remedies, and methods of treatment, and 

 even peculiar phrafeology. It would be indeed 

 hard upon a writer on horfes, not to be permit- 

 ted to ride his own proper hobby. We have all 

 had them. Thus, Markham's favourites were 

 oil of oats, and pilgrim s falve ; Burdon's, a 

 turnip poultice ; Dr. Bracken's, cordial balls ; 

 Bartlet's, nitre ; Profeffor Taplin's, high found- 

 ing words, ftock phrafes, and treble refined 

 fenfe ; and thofe of Dr. Lawrence, the laft, and 

 leaft of the catalogue, a loofe ftable, and Sal 

 mirabUis Glaiiberi — Glauber's wonderful Salt ! 

 God reft the foul of Daddy Glauber ! I am 

 fure all the druggifts at leaft, will anfwer and 

 fay — Amen ! 



It hath been hitherto the general cuftom to 

 exclude draught cattle from the benefits 

 of cleanfing and evacuation, by cathartic medi- 

 cines, but, in my opinion, even without the ap- 

 pearance of realon ; for, from the general grofs 

 and furfeitincT nature of their food, and the 



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