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drug, diet, or regimen, could equal the pre- 

 parations of iron, for promoting that power in 

 the animal body by which blood is made ; of 

 courfe, it muft be a powerful fpecific, in all 

 cafes of over relaxed folids, debilitation and 

 confumption. Would not chalybeate beer be a 

 cheap and efficacious medicine for the poor ? 



Mr. Blaine is fo complaifant, as to omit no 

 opportunity, however trifling, of honouring me 

 with his notice. He fays, that probably I was 

 not aware of the knowledge the ancients had of 

 the glanders, when I obferved, " that glanders 

 and the venereal difeafe bore the fame date in 

 medical annals." I reply, that a little refletlion 

 might have faved him the trouble of fuch a re- 

 mark. To wave what I had faid on the utter 

 improbability of either glanders or fyphilis be- 

 ing new difeafes, the fair conftru6lion of my 

 words mufl; be, that the two difeafes attrafted 

 general notice at nearly the fame period. With 

 my books before him, what could lead him to 

 fuppofe, that' I had never read of the moifo ma- 

 lady, or had never turned over the unintereft- 

 ing and obfolete pages of Vegetius Renatus ? 

 unlefs indeed it were merely becaufe the latter 

 is obvioufly a tafk which he had never impofed 

 upon himfelf. I fay obvioufly, for it is impof- 

 fible to reconcile his knowledge of that compi- 

 lation-of antiquated follies and abfurdities, with 

 his repeated llrong recommendations of the 



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