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without fhoe or (locking, to travel from out of 

 Surry to Liverpool, and thence acrofs the fea to 

 Ireland, with the full deternnination, to which 

 every faint in the Irifh calendar was called to 

 witnefs, of gelding his unauthorized deputy. 

 Should the reader wonder at my keeping fuch 

 a colleQion of boars, I inform him, that I fold 

 them fat to country faufage-makers, who were 

 in the habit of furnilhing the London markets 

 with t^at exquifite delicacy. On Spaying, 

 Mr. Blaine had much better have faid nothing. 

 It is a ftrange circumftance, that in the country 

 the gelders fhould be fo expert at this operation, 

 feldom failing, while in London, they feldom 

 fucceed. I have had four fows killed out of 

 five, in fpaying. 



Swelled Neck from Bleeding. Warm 

 fomentations, cooling faturnine ointment, bread 

 and milk poultice. Check proud flefh with 

 red precipitate and burnt allum, fine powder. 

 If fwelling or indurations remain, fpirits doubly 

 camphorated, four ounces ; bole, one drachm ; 

 aquafortis, twenty drops. Apply lint or tow, 

 dipped in the mixture ; bind with warm thick 

 flannel. Proper in bruifes of the back and 

 withers. Or. Rowel in the bread, and blow 

 the (kin up to the part affefted. Swelling, 

 or Bruise from the faddle : Boil hay in 

 equal parts of ftale urine, iron quenched in it, 

 and verjuice; fpirits may be added after, or 



not. 



