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, taken him up again the next, or following day, 

 without any perceptible change in his ftate of 

 body ; nor withhold my wonder when he ai- 

 ferts, we want experiments of the effefts of fuch 

 treatment ; thefe, God knows, have ever been 

 in fuch plenty, from the indolence and (lupidity 

 of mankind, that the moft diligent obferver of 

 fymptoms need not be at a lofs. The doQor's 

 horfe failing to catch cold, goes no farther in 

 contravention of the general principle, than 

 does the circumftance of fome perfon's efcap- 

 ing the infe61ion of the plague and fmall-pox, 

 in proving thofe not to be contagious difeafes. 

 I have be^ much more lucky at cold-catching 

 than Dr. Beddoes, and have witnefTed a mul- 

 titude of experiments with horfes fimilarto his, 

 which have been attended with all poflible fuc- 

 cefs ; producing defluxions from the eyes and 

 nofe, inflamed and fwelled glands, flaring coat, 

 fever and lofs of appetite. The common me- 

 thodus medeiidi, adopted by the country people 

 in this cafe is " to let them run it ofi^," and fome- 

 times it runs into the true glanders, an inflance 

 of which was related to me a fhort time paft. 



Dr. Beddocs has alfo adopted the notion, that 

 fudden tranfition from heat to cold is lefs pro- 

 duftive of catarrhal affettions than the change 

 from cold to heat ; a notion which from dili- 

 gent obfervation (and if perfonal experience 

 ought to claim any attention, few have a right 



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