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horfes which were killed in the flight of Louis 

 to Varennes, that their death was rather occa- 

 fioned by improper treatment afterwards, than 

 by the fudden effeds of faft driving. I have 

 reafon to believe, that the ablution of new born 

 infants in cold water, has caufed the death of 

 many. I know not in what degree this infane 

 praftice may obtain, but that fuch praftice does 

 exift, I have fufficient information. A child of 

 my own was killed by it, fhewing the moft evi- 

 dent indication of the caufe of that obftruftion, 

 which induced convulfions and death. A fimi- 

 lar accident happened in a French family in my 

 neighbourhood, as I . was lately informed by 

 the nurfe ; there is alfo a certain lady now 

 living, who has been blind from the day of 

 her birth, having loft her fight from the fame 

 treatment. 



I had nearly forgotten to defcribe a new 

 method of cold-catching in the human animal, 

 of which the public in general may not be 

 aware. It is from the religious cold-bath. It 

 was that aquatic fe6l among us, who, according 

 to Butler, 



Plve like wild-fowl for falvation, 

 And fifh to catch regeneration, 



who firft made the valuable and important dif- 

 covery, that John ought not to be called the 



baptift. 



