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prefcriptlon, no article to which he objeQs is 10 

 be found, camphor excepted ; furely then, as 

 antiphlogiflic as himfelf could wifh. After* 

 zodj'ds, and on the prefumption of an exacerba- 

 tion of the tormina or gripes, which I have 

 often obferved, oil of juniper and articles of a 

 iimilar intent, are prefcribed. but in fuch mode- 

 rate quantities, and fo guarded, as to render it 

 impoffible they ihould have any of thofe dange- 

 rous effe6ls which Mr. Blaine pretends to dread, 

 or, in fa6l, any but fuch as are legitimate and 

 falutary. The wine which Mr. Blaine quotes, 

 rather in a marked way, is only half a pint in a 

 purging drink, if held necc^ffciry, that is, after a 

 considerable time for rerleclion on the (late of 

 the cafe. The larger qoiantity of Wine, after- 

 wards ordered, is on a fufpicion of the approach 

 of gangrene. The experienced praftitioner, 

 particularly in the colics of horfes, will now de- 

 cide on the validity of Mr. Blaine's objeftions ; 

 and by what follows, to which of us, the charge 

 of dangerous pra61ice, will moll; probably at- 

 tach. 



I have already remarked, " that I fufpeft au- 

 " thors may have run their divifions upon this 

 " difeafe in horfes fomewhat too fine." That 

 obfervation occurred from what I had feen ; 

 and I am flill farther confirmed by what Mr. 

 Blaine has written, that is to fay, collefled 

 from mere authority, on the different fpecies of 



colic. 



