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none in Pathology, that would lead to 

 the successful treatment of a disease, 

 which has proved most destructive to the 

 noblest and most useful animal in the 

 creation, although it has excited the 

 study and attention of first-rate prac- 

 titioners, both here and on the conti- 

 nent, for now more than 100 years. 

 Nay, even the seat of the disease has never 

 been properly defined stomach, lungs, 

 and head, have each been pronounced 

 as such, by different professors of this 

 most useful art ; but dissection after 

 dissection has failed to trace the 

 source of this bane to the animal's 

 existence. 



In the absence of all cure, then, and in 

 despair of finding any antidote, how ne- 

 cessary is it to use every precaution 

 to guard against its appearance ; and 

 this I cannot more forcibly recommend, 

 than in the words of a distinguished 



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