ON COLIC. 47^ 



mind to the ftate in which I have been labouring 

 for many years to reduce mine ; to enable it to 

 love truth with equal ardour, whether it concern 

 myfelf or others. If it turn out that I am 

 wrong in this cafe, I {hall always hold jnyfelF 

 under an obhgation to Mr. Blaine for having 

 mformed me of my error ; if otherwife, Lam 

 fiill obliged for the opportunity of vindication. 



But, in the firft place, in what page of my 

 book, or v/here did Mr. Blaine find me " ownina- 

 " a want of information on veterinary medi- 

 *'- cine ?" With refpe61 to the " comfortable 

 *•' things and cordial drenches" commonly given 

 in gripes, and the danger of increafing inflam- 

 matory fymptoms, Mr. Blaine might have con- 

 vinced himfelf, as my readers, in general, are no 

 doubt convinced by ray obfervations and cau- 

 tions, that I was fully informed and prepared on 

 that head. In truth, it was from the moft ma- 

 ture confideration, that I ordered paregoric and 

 anodyne articles, which, from experience, I con- 

 ceive, muft ever be indicated, in a greater or lefs 

 degree, during the tormina of colic, however 

 confiderable the inflammation. Mr. Blaine's 

 objeftion to camphor, I apprehend, will do him 

 little credit, that drug being perhaps our greatefi: 

 dependance in the cafe, as febrifuge, anti- 

 inflammatory, an excellent antifeptic, and pre- 

 ventive of the fl;rangury, which Torn etimes fu- 

 pervenes. He may obferve, that in my firft 



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