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the cafe, but he aflured me generally, that he 

 had made cures in many fimilar cafes, ahhough 

 his fl^ill was as nothing to that of his father, 

 who could cure all difeafes whatever, either of 

 cows, horfes, or chriftians. With very vague 

 ideas of the nature and caufe of the difeafe, 

 this man treated the horfe in fome refpe6ls 

 judicioufly enough, according to that landom 

 intuitive kind of pra6lice by which all thefe 

 empyrics are diflinguifhed. He rowelled the 

 horfe, and bliftered his flanks, to which I think 

 the cure is to be attributed ; for according to 

 the beft obfervation I could make, and to en- 

 quiries of the horfe-keeper, the internal medi- 

 cines exhibited had very fmall effe6l, unlefs 

 perhaps in retarding the cure. 



Sometimes it w^as reported in the liable, that 

 the horfe was about to have the farcy, at 

 others, that his diforder had arifen from a ftrain 

 in the loins; but all agreed that many horfes 

 had been loft, or fallen into incurable com- 

 plaints, in a fimilar cafe. My own opinion at 

 the inftant was, that in the firft place, the horfe 

 would have been infinitely more fafe in the 

 hands of a fkilful furgeon, and alfo that the 

 cure might fo have been performed in much 

 lefs time, and with lefs injury to the condition 

 of the animal. This hint I hope will not be 

 thrown away. 



About two years previous, I had perfonal 



experience 



