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the gleet recurring after awhile ; which I think 

 evidently proved that the virus had pervaded 

 the mafs of humours, and that internal medi- 

 cines had not been enough attended to. Gib- 

 fon records two very fatisfaftory inftances of 

 cure, and in Bartlet may be found a very ra- 

 tional method both of cure and prevention, 

 which lafl: is no doubt the chief objecl : in this 

 author, the ufe of the trepan is explained with 

 plates. 



Dr. Darwin feems to refer this difeafe, intirely 

 to contagion, without being aware, that ac- 

 cording to all experience, the horfes which 

 become glandered from contagion, either of 

 the air, or of other horfes, are few indeed to 

 thofe which contraft it from common colds 

 neglefted, and hard keeping. In cafe of the 

 epidemic, the do6lor recommends once bleed- 

 ing, and a mild purgative of aloes and hard 

 foap ; on the appearance of fymptoms of debi- 

 lity, with cold extremities and floughs in the 

 membrane, half an ounce of tinfture of opium 

 in a pint of ale, every fix hours. Turning 

 fuch out to grafs with the gleet upon them, I 

 have never known to fucceed. 



In general, thofe who have attempted the 

 cure of this veterinary opprobrium, have made 

 a too violent ufe of medicines of one clafs, 

 have totally neglefted thofe of another, per- 

 haps the mod material, and have expected 



fuccefs 



