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SECTION LXXI. 



An effe5lual Re?nedy for Cattle ftaling Blood: 

 with feveral Remedies for other Diforders to 

 which they are liable, 



STALING of blood, or, as feme term it, 

 the bad-water^ frequently proceeds from a 

 change of pafture. The land it prevails upon 

 is generally of a poor nature, and fuch as pro- 

 duces whins. Thediforder commonly makes 

 irs appearance in fpring. 



Before I took upon me to do6lor my ovvn 

 beads, 1 have known feveral die with this dif- 

 order. When a beaft was taken ill, my cuftom 

 was immediately to fend away for a farrier called 

 a cow-dodor^ and I thought it my duty fo to 

 do. But a worthy old gentleman, a phyfician 

 who atrended iry flimiiy, foon convinced me 

 ot the io:norance of the clafs of men called cow- 

 dodlors, and the very improper ti'eatment they 

 prefcribed for their mute patients. 



Tliere arc fome, v/ho from their education 

 2nd piofeffion give us to hope a little morefci- 



ence 



