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abilities and praftical refearches of ProfelTor 

 Coleman, who, according to Mr. Blaine, " has 

 paid more attention to the fubjecl than any per- 

 fon in this kingdom, or perhaps in the world.'* 

 In the firft paragraph, the ideas appear to have 

 been copied from Gibfon. What a triumph 

 over poor Taplin, becaufe he chanced to render 

 pipe or dutl, by the name of bladder ! 



The hacknied fubjeft of the Haw in the eye 

 (p. 72. 671) Mr. Blaine has treated, as he fup- 

 pofed, for his own purpofe, and precifely with 

 his ufual fuccefs ; on no account indeed, has he 

 {hewn himfelf more weak, or more deficient in 

 praftical knowledge. It is totally falfe, that 

 any refpeftable writer has '•' called the niftating 

 cartilage the haws" — that the membrane is a late 

 difcovery, or that the haw, which is a real mor- 

 bid excrefcence, is a protecHon to the eye. 

 That the caruncle is intended as a prote6lion is 

 as obvious as its exiftence. I fhould not wonder 

 at any abfurdity in the operations of a common 

 farrier, but what example has Mr. Blaine to 

 produce of lofs of fight from the excifion of the 

 haw ? I much doubt that he has ever feen the 

 cafe at all, upon which he decides fo perempto- 

 rily. I have now and then witnefled an excefs 

 of the caruncle in the human eye; in horfes 

 very frequently, and alfo the operation in the 

 latter, from which I never heard even of the 

 fmallelt inconvenience. Within thefe tv\^o 



months 



