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baptift', but the dapper and the fprinkler ; ac- 

 cordingly, the doftors among them hold it pro- 

 per to brace up the religious zeal of their pa- 

 tients, with a good catholic foufe of the naked 

 body in cold water. Now, whether for want 

 of faith, as the holy ones never fail to plead, in 

 cafe of ill-hap, or from what other caufe it 

 may proceed, this cold-bathing the foul for its 

 health, has fometimes proved fatal to its partner 

 the body. Not long fince, a woman whom I 

 perfonally knew, died from the ill confequences 

 of this religious freak. Inftantly on her return 

 home from John the dipper's foul-fprinkling 

 cold-bath, (he complained of an oppreffion at 

 her ftomach and breaft ; fhe became gradually 

 confumptive, and held out about a year and 

 half. I have fince heard of a fimilar acci- 

 dent, but the patient is in a convalefcent 

 (late. 



The common fymptoms of a cold in a horfe, 

 in its firft ftage, are well known-^cough, dif- 

 charge of lymph, or water from the eyes and 

 nollrils, and occafionally hanging down the 

 head. If attended to at firft, as it ever ought in 

 this land of rheums, at any rate in cold fcafons, 

 the difeafe will immediately fubmit ; a few days, 

 or even a fingle day's warm treatment in the 

 ftable, a little additional clothing, warm water 

 and mafhes generally do the bufinefs ; the vef- 

 fels being relieved from a fuperfluous load, will 



Y 2 contra6l. 



